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 The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music television. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through looped and glitch like synthetic sounds, as a gradual metamorphosis effectively turns this impoverished palette into a work with a very wide expressive range. This is very much in evidence from early on, as sensorial assaults of fuzz and subtle non rhythmic digital detritus slowly gather momentum and personality, contorting themselves into newer and more harrowing sonic shapes. By the end of the first ten minutes, a disorientating and spacious web of rich drones, sprawling percussion and warped looped guitar establishes itself, which apart from quizzical synth intrusions, resolves any of the previous uncertainty. Despite the fact that Ant Saggers methodology is rather rudimentary, the array of textures and timbres is infinite. Part one and two of There's an Ocean between us, you and I, employs a sea of digital processing to enhance the properties of the source sounds, inverting the background and foreground, bringing very quiet sounds forward and placing louder shredding and crumbling sounds further back in the mix. When Saudabe - Part One arrives, Saggers passes like a somnambulist through dramatic eruptions of guitar and wispy interludes, stirring the pace gently but effectively. At several points near the end of the album, a dark ambient noise invades the sonorous cells like a sort of cancer. Saggers then deploys more complex tones and loops, distending them to a bloated scale and forcing them to do battle, which results in Saudabe - Part Two, a spellbinding war of extreme tonalities. This darting from muffled howling to reddened din, proves a thrilling conclusion to a most impressive debut. Review by Max Schaefer
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