ALEXANDER STORDIAU: A CONSTRUCT OF THE MIND (MUSIC OF AN IMAGI-KIND)

Alexander Stordiau's Brussels-based works hold a revolutionary edge, being arcane and equivocal as they spool a bygone, cinematic landscape through one's head. 

A Construct of the Mind is a good example of this, with the four-track EP creating a mood layered in hypnotic, electronic baroque.  

The eponymous opening reveals the amalgamated purpose, sending one high from an aerial, guitar rift that seeks a stormy end. The clouds collide; lightning rips. The summation lets the deepest memories transcend. 

"Dying happy in your sleep" is the subconscious succession, a popping track that mirrors Alessandro Cagliostro, Louis de Pointe du Luc and Tuan Jim, plus any and all who've been affixed to the thunderous burden of guilt. It also crawls from an alternate mind, an intrinsic mind, an oversoul that hammers clusters of chilling clips from The Sea-Creature, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula and Bride and the Beast, old reflections made new again, fished from feral pits. 

"My Vains Pump Acid" pushes the supercilious transgression farther by skidding it sideways, its rubbery, transuding notes nurturing Xenomorph slime, dripping through floors and into corridors unexplored, a clammy, cavernous retreat relieved it's not of this earth.

For his fascinating fourth, Stordiau's "The End of Courtesy," abolishes one's remaining, present-life chains, doing so without apology or vindication. As it rains (as its notes tap in a derisory dance), another existence is born through a conglomerate of reincarnated mutation, one stronger and wiser than what was born before. 

When listening to Stordiau's expanse, one may not adapt my stormy stance, but be assured that whatever one projects on the silver screen of one's mind, has no choice but to turn sublime.

Explore Stordiau's construct at 

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