A split between two distinctly different instrumental rock bands, New York's metallic math rockers Dysrhythmia and the bass-heavy British post rockers

Rothko, who are connected by a shared interest in intricate musical structures and moody atmosphere. Dysrhythmia are first on the disc with a fifteen minute

reworking of their song "Earthquake", which was originally included on the band's self released Contradictions album from 2000. Now that the band

has Colin Marston from Behold...The Arctopus on bass, they revisited this song with a massive reinterpretation that becomes a labyrinth of soft jazzy

textures and eerie passages of dark ambience that erupt into violent frenzies of mathy shredding and angular distorted riffing, twisty blasts of guitar

skronk and elastic basslines. Super heavy and proggy, like Don Caballero gone tech metal. After that pummeling metallic workout, the disc winds down with two

expansive tracks from Rothko. Two bass guitars, keyboards, and d

rums come together for these somewhat jazzy, somber songs; "Tell Your Story To The Winds" features the two basses engaged in a conversation, low-end rubbery

grooves and higher, windswept melodies twist and turn, drifting on low droning ambience, distorted feedback rumbles and soft rhodes piano-like tones as a

lunging, motorik groove comes in with the drums. And "Torch" is a mesmerizing cloud of tribal percussion, drifting ambience and electronic noise, and more

distorted ambient rumbling, somewhere in between Ash Ra Temple and improv amp sludge and austere, sunbaked post-rock, psychedelic and dreamy.

An excellent pairing of instrumental heavy atmosphere, packaged in a white digipack with nice impressionistic artwork.