Another sonic portrait of icy black drone from the Russian Abgurd label, Cold Sea Week is a new full length disc from the solo project Adriva aka Denis Shapovalov from the Russian city of Rostov-On-Don. He's also responsible for creating the grim industrial drones in the groups Sunchariot, Enmerkar, and Matter, and fans of the ominous ambience of that Sunchariot CD-R that we listed in the last Crucial Blast update in December will dig this at least as much. A three track disc, packaged in a simple full-color cardstock sleeve in a sealed mylar bag, the disc jacket featuring front and back paintings of cold, grey expanses of water beneath overcast skies, painted in a highly impressionistic style that fits with the heavy submerged dronescapes. Each lengthy track is a dense swirl of doomy minor key ambience and soft rumbling amplifier distortion, buried under leagues of looping percussion, rumbling synthesizer pulses, and deep bass tones. The sound is completely blurred, all of it's edges softened and smeared into a churning haunting hum. The last track is the most minimal, a shimmery subsonic ocean of amplifier hum turning over on itself in extreme slow motion, ghostly voices and soft focus melody emerging alongside the menacing far-off clangs of metal and feedback. Beautiful, dark drone works a la Troum, in another super limited run of only 100 copies.