#1151 Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters

This takes the 80's revivalism of M83, Cut Copy, Washed Out and a thousand other modern bands and smears it out as ambient deconstruction, sounding like some lost tracks of the Drive soundtrack. In some places (especially the title track) it works, grabbing at the latent pathos and pulse of the sound and ballooning it beyond conscious contemplation as synthy waves bloom eternal. But, seemingly out of ideas, Com Truise resorts to modern BPM slurring and glitchy fuckery to keep things evolving, and the result is grating, sub-Oneohtrix wobble and blur. It's a shame this guy didn't have the nerve or the talent to to keep it clean and keep it interesting - the purest form of the sound kills, but too much of it's muddied by other ambitions 3/5