Airktoo the (tha) Darkar (darcest) creeps upon us again, with a release to spur the industrial chills, as well as a dark, symbolic (strikes-at-twelve) start for any calm-before-the-storm moment of any new phase.
In stray dogs are silent this midnight, the artist specializes in audio versions of vices and upheavals: those meddling, clandestine interludes that we know will prove problematic, but we engage all the same.
"Drink and drive" is perhaps as troubling as it gets, but its tonality isn't characterized by careening squeals or crashes, but rather raven-rapping doom.
"Mental factory", its immediate sequel, is the enduring lament that later invades: a tinny, grinding landscape, where labored thoughts queue an assembly line of weighing woes.
"Metallic milk" is all that's left to consume in the bleak aftermath, with anguished swallowing and a lingering sting deep in the pit of one's throat.
"Bite this" is an ensuing f-this, where the composer constructs a prancing, upraised finger for those quick to condemn. Since forgiveness won't come, one might as well adapt a hardy, rebellious refrain.
If the latter constitutes a defiant assault, then "please, tell me thank you" is a response to those who've taken everything and yet have the audacity to request more. In so many ways, this track is Airktoo's crowning achievement, wracked with resignation, fury and cries of why-oh-why.
"White brown" and "cheap potatoes" conclude the experimental sojourn, with goading gales and slammed, prison doors, and to mark the commemorating feast, an ongoing punishment of gravy-less meat. Alas, it's all one will ever have to eat.
Airktoo does, indeed, mount the melancholia for this journey, but one needn't be a masochist to favor it. If anything, the album's doleful noises constitute a compilation of despairing songs to match any irritating mishap for any lost soul.
Try stray dogs... on for size. Its austerity could very well become one's most apt, audio perspective:
https://adarcahianku.bandcamp.com/album/stray-dogs-are-silent-this-midnight?fbclid=IwAR0WXSGCOebc2odebAB2pgGQeLTbXJOj7tDig51XUv_8NKz6JXJyVt9E1HE
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