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The first thing that strikes the eye about this album is the beautiful and original cover art, made by Seldon Hunt, a professional designer who has already designed very nice things for projects like Ginnungagap and Troum. Such a beautiful cover raises expectations, however, and I got the idea that I'd find some original and well-made ambient on Music for an untitled film by T. Zärkkof. The title also made me curious, although I wasn't able to find who T. Zärkkof is. Unfortunately, LNGTCHÉ doesn't live up to these expectations entirely.
On Music for an untitled film by T. Zärkkof we hear rather minimalist dark ambient, which doesn't remind me at all of the light cover, containing a collage inspired by nature, or the calm dark red interior image of apartment buildings in the night. Not a problem in itself, of course, but what does bother me is that the sounds used here are all rather standard for the dark ambient genre. In addition, the music gets very monotonous from the second half onwards. There's just too little happening. One could say this is what's supposed to happen in minimalistic music, but while projects like Svartsinn and Northaunt do manage to hold my attention, it quickly fades here with LNGTCHÉ. A sample of running stream, repeated for about twenty minutes is one of the things that start to irritate me, and don't provide enough variation.
Apart from this, the first part is reasonably varied, by the way. We hear drones, a kind of constant undertone and here and there bits of drums, guitars, squeaking and grinding noies, all fading in and out. Around the middle of the track, things quiet down and slowly the second part arises, which is mainly made up of a drone with a few tonal changes, and the mostly constant undertone we heard in the first half. There is even less variation here, and by this time, listening to this album becomes tiresome. Maybe P.T., the man behind LNGTCHÉ would have done better by dividing the album into multiple songs with short(er) atmospheric images.
The production of this album is fine, by the way, and despite a disappointing first encounter, I'm curious about future works by LNGTCHÉ, because I feel the project could have potential, if developed further. If you really like dark minimalistic music, and it can't get monotonous enough, this album is certainly worth a chance, but otherwise it's best left aside.
D.M.K.
On Music for an untitled film by T. Zärkkof we hear rather minimalist dark ambient, which doesn't remind me at all of the light cover, containing a collage inspired by nature, or the calm dark red interior image of apartment buildings in the night. Not a problem in itself, of course, but what does bother me is that the sounds used here are all rather standard for the dark ambient genre. In addition, the music gets very monotonous from the second half onwards. There's just too little happening. One could say this is what's supposed to happen in minimalistic music, but while projects like Svartsinn and Northaunt do manage to hold my attention, it quickly fades here with LNGTCHÉ. A sample of running stream, repeated for about twenty minutes is one of the things that start to irritate me, and don't provide enough variation.
Apart from this, the first part is reasonably varied, by the way. We hear drones, a kind of constant undertone and here and there bits of drums, guitars, squeaking and grinding noies, all fading in and out. Around the middle of the track, things quiet down and slowly the second part arises, which is mainly made up of a drone with a few tonal changes, and the mostly constant undertone we heard in the first half. There is even less variation here, and by this time, listening to this album becomes tiresome. Maybe P.T., the man behind LNGTCHÉ would have done better by dividing the album into multiple songs with short(er) atmospheric images.
The production of this album is fine, by the way, and despite a disappointing first encounter, I'm curious about future works by LNGTCHÉ, because I feel the project could have potential, if developed further. If you really like dark minimalistic music, and it can't get monotonous enough, this album is certainly worth a chance, but otherwise it's best left aside.
D.M.K.