RETRO REVIEW 004 - Scorn - Gyral

They say there are faces that could launch a thousand ships. Well in the case of Scorn's Gyral, this is one of those albums that launched about 100 sub-genres, all as technically proficient as they are abstract. What is essentially sort of..well dub music or illbient or "abstract" (which is a nice genre tag I found on discogs.com for this) or maybe some weird slowed down type of drum & bass or perhaps dark ambient or even industrial hip hop?

If Scorn (a side project of Napalm Death members) always does one thing right its how palpable their abstract timbres are. Organized into crunchy grooves, Gyral is a perplexing record of not very dissonant sound collages. Its pretty damn hard to figure out how they are making this music all the way back in 1995. Is he playing live instruments? Is it all sequenced? There is a lot of subtle, slowed down juggling and distinct cross fading tricks to these instrumentals. Gyral is home to some really bad ass bass and drum tones. Get ready for that /low/ low bass and lots of effects.

Probably more for fans of Autechre than Napalm Death.