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Crisis is a new experimental industrial, dark-ambient project from the UK. The debut album ‘Reactor4’ is released on the also new label Syndrom Records. The album deals with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Given the name of the album, it should already have been clear. And then to also call your project Crisis, it’s not all too subtle. But then again, the extreme disaster wasn’t either.
The sound of the album is very striking. It uses analogue synths and found Russian samples to recreate the chemical atmosphere. As a whole it has a kind of old school sound to it, which would have fitted nice in the Slaughter Productions catalogue years ago. Crisis knows exactly how to create gritty and striking atmospheres, regarding to the theme. The first song ‘Shut Down’ creates a great sense of unease, while the second track, ‘Momentum’, is a brilliant chemical soundscape, which uses Russian vocal samples to convey a toxic scenery. The whole album is quite a brilliant sound reconstruction of the Chernobyl disaster, from the moment it went wrong to the chemical aftermath. A lot of industrial records deal with this type of material, but I seldom hear such a strikingly claustrophobic use of chemical sounds, which really puts you into that infamous toxic place. In that way, it is somewhat comparable to Propergol’s sideproject Wrong Number with the album ‘Gun-Type Fission Weopon’ and Land:Fire’s ‘Physical : Mental : Psychological’. Those albums dealt more with the effect of the atomic bomb, but they had the same striking use of claustrophobic sounds regarding to its theme. Crisis is as good in conveying such a mood and therefore isn’t necessarily a pleasant listening experience, which is why it is so good, because the source material isn’t a fun subject to begin with.
‘Reactor4’ is a great record and Crisis seems like a new promise in the industrial underground. In essence in may not be the most original recording, but the sound of this record is so striking and devastating, it becomes something special. Also because of the use of analogue sounds and found samples, it recreates a genuine Chernobyl atmosphere that is hard to shake. So all this makes the album a real high recommendation!
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