INFINITY INTERRUPT

“Hybrid Still Life”
Label: 1over0records
(3/5)

“Hybrid Still Life” is the newest release from Chicago’s “Infinity Interrupt”. Riddled with oppressively dark moods and textures, “Hybrid Still Life” plays from beginning to end like a detailed soundscape to a life gone wrong. You can still see glimpses of a beauty that used to exist but now only shadows and detached memories of what that beauty was remain. It sounds great I know BUT I’m a bit split over this release. When sticking to ambient textures, tones and whispered story telling (used to great effect here) “Hybrid Still Life” excells. Haunting, dark and always intriguing. If this were the entire CD the review would end here and I’d say run out and get it. However, not everything is rosy in this darkland. “Hybrid Still Life” starts to lose ground a bit when Infinity Interrupt moves away from the previously described textures and start to employ more arpeggiated synths and drums. The songs aren’t bad… they just aren’t inspiring and seem flat when compared to the more texture oriented tracks. These tracks just take on a generic tone that don’t match up to the coolness of the ambient stuff. All that said… I still recommend this disc for anyone who is a fan of relentlessly dark music and for those fans of Cold Meat material, you will find a good deal to like in “Hybrid Still Life”. Stand out tracks: “Still Life” and “Crawl”.

-Chvad SB

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