Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***
Cosmic jungle producer ASC will likely never cease to dazzle; and what with the number of records he's pressed in recent years, the rate of petrochemical fire is currently rapider than a techno-modded Tommy gun, to the extent that we're beginning to worry about Thailand's pellet-producing capacity. Concerns over prolificness aside, new one for Over/Shadow 'Crystal Flash' is yet another exo-transmissive freneticism, pairing bright, cluster-toned string apotheoses with hard-limited, pray-to-god amen breaks, and topping both these off with a mind-bendingly telescopic phase filtration on the master channel, sounding like the sonic equivalent of a distant, anomalous nova, the medial sight of which breaks the expectation of a redshift. B-sider 'Fireflies' provides swell contrast, its breaks and high pads moving and pistoling with less ultimate, more technical alacrity, carving out a wry breathing space in the otherwise asphyxial vacuum of space.
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