Our reach is limited, our senses are imperfect, and reality TV producers haven’t come up with the cash to send naive participants up into space for the purposes of showing us the really crazy shit that happens at the distant corners of the Universe. Whereas we previously might’ve relied on Carl Sagan and other scientific investigators for revelations into the juicy haps of the unfathomably large area beyond the Andromeda galaxy, for those of us who might find it hard to digest seemingly paradoxical notions of space, distance, and time, the legendary Lustmord a.k.a. Wales-born Brian Williams is here to offer some astronomical insights that promise to go down relatively smooth. Just consider “smooth” in the context of a now Los Angeles-based guy who rarely performs live, had otherwise indirectly intimidated audience members at show in a Satanic church, and who’s known for having a hand in pioneering the less euphoric side of ambient music.
Unsurprisingly, then, Lustmord’s new solo album is called Dark Matter, out September 30 on Touch, and it was essentially carved out of archived space sounds. Over a 10-year span, Williams collected audio of “cosmological activity” from NASA, The Very Large Array, The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and various other sources, and the result is seemingly something befitting both the Lustmord reputation and the label with which he’s newly associated.
Here’s our review of Lustmord’s preceding choral effort, and here’s a five-minute “medley” of the new one:
Dark Matter tracklisting:
01. Subspace
02. Astronomicon
03. Black Static
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