Outside The World

This release finds Fernow moving into even more ambient and drift like territory. One side is all washed out buzz drenched crumble, a barren landscape of time lapse decay, cities falling to ruin, fauna withering, wildlife dying, the sky turning an ashen grey, the soundtrack to a gradual return to dust, the various sounds wreathed in a hissy swirl of tape drop outs and creaking mechanical whir. The other side is even more pretty, tranquil, ambient, like the first sighting of the sun after the dust clouds clear, and signs of life begin to stir, still bleak and haunting, but pretty and subtly hopeful.

Wide open expanses of distant fragmented melody, mumbled barely there drones, with the surface noise of the record as much an element as the music itself. (aquarius)