Pyroclasts vinyl

To describe "Pyroclasts" as an album would be misleading. It's certainly as commanding as any LP you'll hear this month, but running at just four tracks, and with the focus on mood rather than conventional ideas such as songcraft, it's really meant to be heard in one long, tripped-out listening session where each of the pieces meld into one huge overture. The result of a practice routine attendees of the Life Metal sessions at Electrical Audio took part in during mornings and evenings, it tells you everything there is to know when someone says "musical participants would gather and work through a 12 minute improvised modal drone", giving a chance for people to "greet each other and the space through the practice of sound immersion." Deep, guttural, distorted, expansive and riddled with discordant melodies, if you listen out for them, it stops short of white noise but guitars rarely make for such meditative scores.