Accretion is the first release from Australian artist Jason Beale, who practices a kind of industrial-tinged improv guitar delirium under the name Aumgn. This disc struck my ears as a mix of Nurse With Wound-like sonic strangeness and heavier experimental guitar-thud a la KK Null, with some slight hints of gritty Broken Flag-influenced noise seething somewhere below the surface. The disc is an interesting introduction to Aumgn's warped soundscapery, starting with a long thirteen-plus minute sound collage of strange jungle noises and looped guitar clang and processed feedback that sometimes drifts over into NUll territory with a heavy focus on rhythmic loops of percussive guitar noise and blocks of textured fuzz. Later on, the track ventures into rumbling orchestral guitar ambience that takes form from distorted chords drifting through clouds of bleeping electronic glitch and deep monstrous breathing tremors, tabla-like rhythms, deep machine murk and otherworldly spaceship engine noises, towards the end emitting aggressive distorted blasts of noise that almost sound like a power electronics track. The next piece is a field of buzzing, crackling drones that open up into masses of heavily distorted guitar, becoming an infinite rhythmic buzz populated with strange moans, metallic grinding, and deeper rumblings. Subsequent tracks go from mangled industrial grime into melodic instrumental guitar pieces, short fuzzed-out psych blurts looping over and over like a Crazy Horse jam being played sans drums, deep-space synth-like black hole buzz leading into fractured free-form riffing. The album closes with an eleven minute piece that joins a throbbing drone with more of that meandering lysergic guitar, the fuzz and grit and distortion becomes gradually louder, evolving into this cacophonic guitar skronk that ends up somewhere between Skullflower and Sharrock, then diffusing into a massive smoldering low end buzz that ends the disc.

It's an interesting debut from this experimental guitar/noise newcomer, recommended to enthusiasts of avant axe crunch a la Null, Plotkin, Hotguitars, etc. Released in a limited edition of three hundred copies.