My eyes are turning in on themselves

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Hysterical undersea babbling and pan-fried drum machine beats are awash in a sea of fizzing electronics and meandering structures in the latest noisy offering from LA noisenik Aria Jalali of railcars. He offered his recordings to the hands and ears of No Age, Lucky Dragons, Jeans Wilder, Xiu Xiu, White Rainbow and Truman Peyote, and the results are predictably effervescent and varied.

The EP is somewhat divided in two, with four versions each of ‘Castles’ and ‘Cathedral With No Eyes’ (including the originals). No Age’s blistering rendition of ‘Castles’ first up submerges the song in a murky dream and pulls it out dripping with the sculptural beginnings of another. Lucky Dragons get fruity and silly, powering the otherwise slightly demonic original with sugar and sprinkly bells. Alternatively, Jeans Wilder sees ‘Castles’ with bleary, red eyes and slows it down into some weird space jam with the tranquility of circulating satellites. Xiu Xiu’s take on the next song, ‘Cathedral With No Eyes’, is of brain-pummeling drums, squawking vocals and synths slipping slowly into a pool. It changes tack suddenly, into a hissing gun-rattling techno clusterfuck. Clearly Jamie Stewart understands Jalali’s vision well, and this is possibly the most eclectic remix on the whole EP. That is until you hear White Rainbow’s mix of scattered sounds panning mercilessly into a cyclone of synths following that. Then there’s Truman Peyote’s wailing elephants stomping in bio-hazardous waste in a desert of echoes. Viciously visceral, the whole thing is being given away for free, so download it now.

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