Autoclav1.1 - Where Once Were Exit Wounds (CD Tympanik Audio)

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Posted on 16 Oct, 2009

This is the 5th album from Autoclav1.1 and the 2nd one released on Tympanik Audio. Tony Young brings a new exploration of ambient and electronic fields on which he asked several guest musicians to contribute. So we get Rachel Haywire doing some vocals on "When We Woke Up", "Jamie Blacker from ESA adding some guitars and vocals on "Do You Feel Disposable?", Emilie Verbieze adding some French vocals on "If Not Something, Anything", Lorenzo Macinanti from Prxs adding some electronics on "Falling Over Ghosts" and last, but not least, Andy Davids from Xotox contributing to "An Idiosyncratic Oath". This new opus of Autoclav1.1 sounds like a continuation of the "Love No longer Lives Here"-album. The style and wafting electro atmospheres remain quite similar, but I experience this new album as more refined in its texture. Feelings of love, loss and despair have been recreated into music. It becomes an intimate transposition symbolized by musical metaphors with as absolute high lights the tracks "Tomorrow" and "An Idiosyncratic Oath". The first piece evokes to me a kind of B. Eno into a more cyber styled journey while the other one is more mystic (through the kind of chants), but featuring some outstanding electro sounds and rhythmic as well. This is for sure Autoclav1.1's best composition thus far! Among the other tracks left I want to mention the cool "If Not Something, Anything" for its low trip-hop rhythm and the kind of gentle piano part. That's definitely an element Tony Young controls perfectly and he added on a few more songs. This is for sure a part of the refinement I was talking about. The experiment with the guitar parts on "Do You Feel Disposable" is another successful try out. It all sounds like everything this artist is doing turns into fascination. Autoclav1.1 already had found his path, but he never walked on it with such brilliance. For the next release(s) I think it will be not that easy for T. Young to emulate the quality and musical ideas he has shown here.
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Band: www.myspace.com/autoclav / www.sentrymusic.com/autoclav.htm
Label: www.tympanikaudio.com / www.myspace.com/tympanik