isis
SGNL > 05 CD
- SGNL > 05 (Final Transmission)
- Divine Mother (The Tower Crumbles)
- Beneath Below
- Constructing Towers
- Celestial (Signal Fills The Void) [Remix by Justin Broadrick]
Total Running Time: 26 mins
Finally! Isis' lost classic SGNL > 05 is now back in print; an absolutely mesmeric album pointing towards the band's future heights with albums Oceanic and Panopticon. Alternatively moving from soft subtle ambience to disturbing industrial effects which forcibly grip and exhume every last breath of modern technology, SGNL > 05 is an unsettling journey within natural wonders and futuristic visions. Slow moving and dark, the haunting, sometimes daunting nature which thrusts the listener haphazardly into this channel of cosmic forces at play, revealing twisting turning, usually formless pieces of sonic textures, wrapped in a storm cloud of suddenness and sometimes a state of independent flux. "Celestial (Signal Fills The Void)" a remix by Godflesh's Justin K. Broadrick, originally turning up an album before of the same name, is utterly refreshing, nearly upbeat by mid-point where piano accompaniment, or something to that effect (with so much in the way of artificial stimuli taking place there's never total assurance) gives this one a melodious and compelling conclusion to an interesting piece of recorded art that's as difficult to describe as it is to explain.
Orginally released on Neurosis' label Neurot in 2001, SGNL > 05 was an important step in Isis' evolution; a seething whisper to previous album Celestial's mechanized roar, and a real pointer to the beatific glacial splendour of their forthcoming classic full lengths.
release date: may 1st 2006
(EU)