Gluttoness - Untitled I - VII(Infinity series part 2) [Sweet Solitude - 2011]'Untitled I - VII' is the second in the Infinity series. This series investigates the more ambient, minimal or experimental sides of the growing Harsh noise wall genre. Each release in the series features identical and minimal black on white artwork, which features a large black monolith on the front and a linked infinity motif on the back. This second volume in the series finds this Fairfax USA based project offering up seven untitled tracks of textured ambient HNW. The Gluttoness project has put out two or three very worthwhile release thus far, and mostly the project has concentrated on it's obsession with large & very buxom ladies, but this release is very much theme-less. The seven tracks here last between just under the two and half minute mark to just under the seven minute mark a piece- with the whole release sliding in just over the forty minute mark. The tracks here are all slow moving and atmophric mixture of: rumbling, droning, sludgey juddering and jittering noise textures. Each tracks here is sequenced so it directly follows on from the last with out a gap, so really this is a single slowly morphing canvas of atmospheric and subdued noise texturing. For the most part it drifts and ebbs along in quite a darkly soothing manner with one texturing morphing and melting into the next, the only one place where things get a bit more jarring is at the end of track five as it moves into track six there are theses two buzzing points that start off the new droning noise texture. This release is more like a thick drifting soup of textured noise, instead of the battering and brutal wall of unrelenting noise you’d expect from a HNW releases. On the whole 'Untitled I - VII' is a very satisfyingly atmospheric and bleak release that offers up forty minutes worth of very rewarding ambient HNW. I very much look forward to hearing future releases in the Infinity series, and also seeing if Gluttoness will continues down this ambient HNW route. Roger Batty
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