More mysterious Russian crustscapes from Abgurd, whose limited edition CD-Rs are becoming something of a fetish item around here. Released in editions of

100 copies and packaged in simple but striking folder sleeves, each Abgurd release is filled with slow-moving amplifier worshipping powerdrones that are

painted pitch black, often beautiful and mesmerizing, but always dark and sinister. Exit In Grey is a duo from the suburbs of Moscow who have been working

with these sort of dark ambient drones, and Twilight Waters features four long tracks of cavernous thrum and whirl rising up from the depths, formed

from layers of field recordings of city streets and bodies of water that have been smeared into grey blurs of sound, subsonic guitar-based rumbling, and the

whorl of prayers bowls slowed down to a meditative oceanic roar. On some of the tracks, the sound of water lapping at a shore, or other natural sounds will

appear, adding to the dreamlike quality of the music. Exit In Grey are alot like Troum, really, using a similiar palette of sound sources to build dramatic,

icy drones, and the final track "Neptune" is the most Troum-esque, beginning with recordings of water and howling feedback winds that slowly shift and morph

into a dense cluster of drone tones that reveal an ancient glacial melody unfolding way underneath the band's heavy drift, finally building into a mighty fog

of shimmering guitar strings that ring and sparkle, vibrating at low frequency, a heavenly thunder of rumbling amplifier speakers sowly overtaking them as

the piece drifts off into silence. Massive. The disc comes in a large folder sleeve printed on thick textured paper stock, and illustrated with eerie

paintings of humanoid figures inside what appears to be some kind of cavern or other underground space.