Symptoms

Symptoms is a luscious offering indeed. The brainchild of Klaus Ammitzboll it employs all manner of post-rock recording and writing techniques to create a seamless and beautiful soundscape.

'Burn', with its classic ambient hums and melodic drones, introduces the jarred dynamics and squelchy sounds of 'Versus', while the spaced out wacky weirdness of early Orb is called to mind on 'Recurring Themes'.

The many uncoventional studio techniques employed here seem to prove that, in order to write truly progressive music in a scene that has been strangled by anal retentiveness, one must flirt with the strangest of working methods. The near-orchestral richness of snail slime oozing off a robin's beak on 'What Is Left' blows the textbook for delicately minute sampling wide open.

While Symptoms is still a little hard to easily digest in one sitting, Ammitzboll has succeeded in making a highly original, if not downright bonkers collection.