GENERIC

"Torture"

Fractured Spaces Records - 2008

CD

Often, very often, reviewing new independent releases in the dark ambient territories is a rather boring experience, as the probabilities to come across copycats and uninspired clones are in this genre dangerously high. But, the desire to let yourself be astonished, even without talking about miracles, just knowing that you're dealing with a good product, one of those able to undo the tyranny of time just for an instant, is the force pushing us to go beyond any prejudice and mediocrity, in search for new roads. Adam Sykes' "Torture Garden" is one of those roads, of which you catch a glimpse at the end of a hallucinatory journey, where the loss of senses crystallizes into a disquieting and muddy sonic nihilism, made of distant echoes, wrapping around us already since the very first bars.

Six tracks all together. Six torture gardens representing a sequence of mythical stations in a decaying world. The tracks, claustrophobic and alienated, sort of vitriol splashes on every form of humanity, perfectly integrate with each other. It's the sound of nightmares, muffled, sick, able to make us forget the lesson of original masters such as Raison d'être, for example. Our time is a sick one, a time that doesn't allow indecision, that expelled Being to the detriment of Appearing, gathered in its whole purulent depth by Adam Sykes' scorching scalpel. We are children of our time, and, as such, we must knee in absolute silence in front of the gates to the abyss, waiting for hope that isn't there yet and never will be. No catharsis is possible in the torture garden.

- Marco S.

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