Imagine 39 Clocks underwater, or German Army/Merx in the afterlife, and you might come up with a recording vaguely similar to Corporate Park’s Mis En Abyme, but why not go straight to the source and mainline away? I bring up mainlining because many of these freezing post-coldwave tracks, “Pundit Mantra” in particular, sprawl out a little bit like (I imagine) the mind does when it’s lost in the thick, soupy clouds of a heroin high. It’s a bit incoherent if you’re not in the right mindset. However, if you can wade through it, more strident cuts like “Too Expensive to Live” (nice title/truism, also) will reward your perseverance. (That said, eight songs of gloopy goo also would have been fine with me!) Corporate Park is S. English/J. Lange, of Texas, and that explains a lot actually because, as I’ve learned, Texans are some fucked-up motherfuckers. In a good way (mostly; often; the majority of the time; sometimes; occasionally; rarely). Great to have Nostilevo back on the Cerberus clock, and if the tape sold out, don’t forget to check back for a new presssss…
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