Bedtime for Robots has launched a bold, new album: Electrical Hymnal.
Thanks to the project's mastermind, Michael Ferentino, it plays like an off-kilter, religious experience, with persistent interludes that reference secular sensations: a blending of both worlds, if one wishes to see--and hear--it that way.
To accentuate the effect, the album shifts between euphoria and horror: an audio equivalent to what the best, experimental art can produce.
On the album's "terrestrial" side, we're treated to "Ancient Roots": an allusion to the earliest forms of judgmental justification. Its seeds sprout further and farther with the ritualistic/percussive "Dungeonface", "Traumatic Extraction" and "Scarfleece", which showcase a psychosis spawned from a skewed, theological perspective. The dial-shifting "Shockflux" and "Stateless" harness their masochistic content in other ways, filtering one's need to believe through the cries of electronic angels.
To enhance this more-or-less "spiritual" side, we get the organ-ic "Possession", which yanks one from sickly repression, guiding one's adventurous spirit "Near Nipple Gate at Smoking Bones", and let us not bypass the infernal but smooth confessionals of "Burn it All Down".
For the sake of its scarier components, "Nightling" and "Stone Glass" invoke parasitic compassion, though more within the the cosmos' far regions than the clawed, coffined earth. "Frozen Concentration" is the churned air that's gasped to prevent eternal decay, with "Hologram Sam" as its cool reinvention. However, the poppin' "Succubus Crush" springs one to a humid perch, where demonic devastation prompts pure, ecstatic exclamation.
"Zazen" is the rock-hard kick-off to all these emotional flings, combining industrial funk with fever-dream zeal, and the mighty "Robot Monster" fringes each and every warped warble by underlining Phil Tucker's misunderstood masterpiece of bubbling high tech and gorilla-suited invasion.
Without question, this hymnal blast blankets all bases: a roller-coaster ride that not only gets one groovin', but acts as an ideal prayer.
And for those so bold to take a backward path, there's Lanmyh Lacirtcele, a version of the album where the tracks are stacked in loving reverse. (Believe or not, the effect is just as effective. Utter genius!!!)
Summon either edition at
https://blackboxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/electrical-hymnal?fbclid=IwAR12fTzHgYexyYOXjE6_xjQLPgapyZeCnP0XvJC5z_XwgR5ddia2sMFta80, and/or
https://blackboxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lanmyh-lacirtcele?fbclid=IwAR3TmsagSWIzLzK5wT2Osa-4j6RcQw21N_i3MH7dIb6KbUtblqJ7xQEJgSE.
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