UnicaZürn - Sensudestricto (2019)

‘Sensudestricto’ is the 2nd volume of steeply immersive, abstract industrial/experimental ambient recordings from Stephen Thrower (Coil, Cyclobe) and David Knight (Shock Headed Peters) in their UnicaZürn duo

In a concerted effort to bypass genre clichés, the pair project four durational parts of amorphous, shapeshifting drone structures that speak to visions of psychedelic horror and ache for an escape from the prosaic and mundane. They’re gurningly dissonant, dense and roiling things that resemble aspects of the obscure and classic film soundtracks Thrower is so fond of, drifting from the expansive horrors of ‘For The Dark Planets’ to something like a Carpenter-esque theme for drug-fuelled, noirish stalker scenes, before switching modes again to a sound recalling earlier Alex Zhang Hungtai records, thanks to Thrower’s pealing blue sax in ‘Stems of the Shadowmind’, and ‘A Gulp of Moss, a Breath of Stone’ most beautifully, frightfully limns parallel ambient dimensions in darkly seductive yet elusive detail.