PAN43 / ALT11

Eldritch electro-acoustic explorer and uncompromising sound artist Luke Younger aka
Helm presents his first new material since casting the subterranean concrète psychedelia
of his 'Impossible Symmetry' album for PAN across end-of-year lists in 2012 and
petrifying numerable witnesses to his granite-hewn live set.
Issued as a split release between PAN and his own Alter label, 'Silencer' documents
four studio actions conducted in the wake of his renowned LP, charting the alchemical
relationships between base, stripped down rhythms, cruddy electronics and acousmatic
source material manipulated on cassette tapes. The magic of these four tracks lies in the
curious sense of detachment and friction between those fractured, awkwardly reactive
elements, klanging flinty drums against detuned, cryptic synth scrabble and buckled tape
FX to create charged and metaphysically affective atmospheres intended to corrode and
infect your listening space.
The title track follows a tumbling line of inquiry between primal percussive clatter and
salted, scratching synth drones into the boggy, noxious ambience and quaking bass slap
of 'Mirrored Palms', which features a desolate, sustained peal of foghorn brass from John
Hannon of Liberez. In the tunnel of 'Bergamo', effluent rhythms and vapourous brown
gases deliver a cold, claggy soundsphere, with Barrow-based multi-instrumentalist Tom
James Scott contributing metallic scrape to the para-dimensional murk and insectoid
shivers of 'The Haze'.