Radiant Husk’s Deflation Basin is a fabulous tape, a fantabulous tape, a zip-zoop ZAbulous tape, and I’ll tell you why: It takes the cassette-drone formula we’ve all been mucking around in for years and attempts to expand its parameters. Most interestingly, it maintains a rhythmic element through its first ‘movement’ that also could be considered a focal point of the drift itself. It underpins the action and lends additional meaning to the coruscating remnants that via a lesser project would be left to run the show on their own. Later on, a slow bell tolls for thee, continuing the quasi-percussive trend and lending a sense of un-metal doom to the proceedings. It also eventually morphs into another example of Radiant Husk’s ability to weave exciting themes through a set-in-stone surface, taking the second half of Deflation Basin’s first side to a place that simply disallows interruption of any kind. I know, I sat and listened to it in my record room and was plastered to my computer chair like a WoW lifer. Then you get to Side B and it’s another game being played by the same set of rules. This time you still get the rhythms, but you also get swooping swirls of bulbous bass and synth streaks. That doesn’t last long, however, as all of a sudden it’s time for electro-acoustics and a change in mood as insects chirp in unison like the buzz of a rapt audience. They know what’s good.
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