No Sense by Substak

Substak returns from Greece with his second album for Recycled Plastics - NO SENSE. Following 2015's beautifully isolated BEATLESS album, No Sense offers up another side of the Substak sound. Where Beatless employed gratuitous sub-bass and sculpted pulses out of the lower end of the frequency spectrum, No Sense feels a bit lighter, airier and more cleanly produced. Substak's trademark elements of rhythmic presence, with or without drums, as well as his fascination with deep blue atmospheric loops are still present, slightly augmented by distant percussive sounds or gritty textural sections that rise out of filter passes like giant waves. No Sense reveals Substak's ability to compose with reverb and filtering as his primary instruments, shaping the sound in subtle ways and giving the listener a feeling of experiencing these aural events from different perspectives. Things feel almost like planetary bodies moving closer and further apart all at once, with the recordings documenting momentary alignments and harmonies. All of this may sound tense and slightly foreboding on paper, but Substak has a way of taking alien sonics and conveying them through native tongues - mutation into transmutation. No Sense is a total head trip that feels far longer than its 45 minute runtime, proving that depth and gravity can be achieved in other ways beyond length, with Substak serving as a master of dimension.

If you enjoy No Sense, definitely pick up a copy of the limited edition CD-R, which contains a gorgeous 13 minute bonus track to close the record.

Tracklist

1.	N.S. #0	5:29

2.	N.S. #1	6:59

3.	N.S. #2	1:58

4.	N.S. #3	3:23

5.	N.S. #4	8:48

6.	N.S. #5	5:36

Credits

released January 26, 2018

W/P by Kostas Staikos. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. This is Recycled Plastics number BC65, and 65th in the ongoing Bedroom Compost series. Design by ABM&D.

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