Iszoloscope has found the perfect equation with his new album “The Audient Void”. Earlier work could mostly be divided into either noise or drones. Releases such as “Aquifére” and “Les Gorges Des Limbes” are more located in the ambient sector, while albums like “Coagulating Wreckage” and “Au Seuil De Nèant” could be put in a more rhythmic region.
On this latest release we get to enjoy both extremes and in such a perfect combination, that “The Audient Void” has become a beautiful and intense album. Delightfully dark and oppressing, but with at the same time very challenging beats and breaks. It’s also very surprising to hear that often in one and the same track the soundtrack-like moods and the thumping rhythms are both present.
Yann Faussurier’s latest outburst comes with beautiful and very matching artwork. The nine songs are all pretty long and spun out, of which the longest can be found at the beginning of the album. Opening track ‘The Audient Void’ stays entertaining a full ten minutes. Very daring and at the same time well done to begin with such a track. It reminds me of the nice opening track of Spermblasters “Seeking Comfort In Chaos”.
The absolute best and finest song is to my opinion ‘The Sum Of Us All’. A very worked up beginning with after one and a half minute a freaking strange break, after which the wonderfully complicated but still absolutely danceable beats sweep you of your feet. Incredible, how intoxicating these nine minutes are!
We keep the pace high in tracks like ‘Insubstantiality’, ‘From Hollow’, ‘Unto Deeper Calling’ and ‘Heard Voices (album version)’. This last one is the shortest presented song and will do nice in the most noise or industrial DJ-set lists. The sweet and pleasant melodies are accompanied by good and mathematically correct beats. Somewhere it reminds me a bit of acts like Kettel or Aphex Twin.
‘The Path Of Totality’ is brought to us in two parts. The first piece has some pretty break beats, while the second is more drone-like and spooky. Apparently the path becomes less practicable the further we get…
With Iszoloscope’s “The Audient Void” Ant Zen brings us the perfect album for those dark, lonely and cold winter nights to come.