The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert (2017) [FLAC]

  Genre: Electronic
  Styles: Ambient, Experimental, Drone
  Source: WEB
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 900 kbps
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 City of Fallen Angels 
  02 Gasoline 
  03 Agoraphobia 
  04 Snakes vs Rats 
  05 Broke 
  06 American Dream 
  07 Don't Walk These Streets
  08 Other Side of the World
  09 Hell A
  10 Concrete Desert
  11 Dog
  12 Pray
  13 Another Planet

  These two names on a recording offer - at least initially - a startling juxtaposition. There's the Bug (aka Kevin Martin), king of compressed, signature bone-breaking beats that emerge from crushing mutant dancehall, grime, and twisted iconic dubstep; his is a signature sound created from crackle, crunch, and crush. Dylan Carlson's Earth - of which he is the only constant member - began as an ultraheavy, low-tuned metal drone outfit whose worship of microphonics and Black Sabbath-ian riffing made them icons. After two decades, they mutated, their sound becoming a spacious subgenre known as "ambient metal" that ever so slowly and deliberately explored aural cave dwelling in tone, timbre, harmonic, and dynamic before finding a middle ground that reintegrated some of their formerly doomy heaviness into the haunted spaces they discovered. Almost all selections commence with Carlson offering dark, airy guitar and bass drones. Martin responds by adding often brittle beats that assist in creating a turnstile for this music to emerge from. When they commingle, squalling white noise, fragmented ambience, fractured polyrhythms, and prismatic feedback create atmospheres for suffocation. Monster bass loops can punctate the din, creating ever expanding layers of tension without respite