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Ambient trance psychedelic dub electronic soundscapes Psychic Enemies Network, writes, "The task of the artist in the age of information is to mold the ever increasing dirge of data into a form that is both comprehensible, and emotionally meaningful. To find the emergent texts within the chaos of the media background." The Network has issued their second dirge of data, "valis". I often cannot identify the sources of the sounds I hear on valis. Nor can I understand the languages spoken by the voices I hear on valis. At times it seems that I bring as much to bear to the experience of listening to valis as valis does. I have no choice: my attempt to mold valis into something comprehensible and meaningful is involuntary. I take it that this is the effect its creators intended valis to have. In the making of valis, the Thorne brothers were in the unenviable position
of having to meet the high standard set by their self-titled debut CD.
I do not find the debut as dark, bleak, and desolate as other reviewers
have. If I had to choose a phrase that characterizes the debut, it would
be "filled with anxiety." Perhaps the final track on the debut, "In
Its Streets," is despairing: but it is my favorite track on that
album. Valis is different. If the debut and valis were siblings, valis
would be the crankier. But valis does not disappoint. |
