This new album from the British duo Formication is a killer slab of Lynchian black electronica that is one of the strangest of the recent offerings from Small Doses and quite different from the heavy black drones and harsh noise that I've been getting from 'em lately. The disc offers ten tracks of abstract, nightmare ambience that moves through massive abyssal drones flecked with industrial noise, crushing black-hole synthesizers, strange processed slurred voices and digitally mutated mutterings that transform the human voice into monstrous insectile chittering, maniacal howls, ecstatic female ululations, echoing percussion, crushing lightless kosimiche synthdrone flecked with delayed guitar, and the occasional appearance of distorted fractured electronic rhythms. Distant chanting appears above weird mewling electronic noise, creepy stabbing strings, and looped melodies, and howling metallic drones give birth to operatic wailing that drifts across fields of squealing, scraping rhythmic horror and wheezing digital decay. A few of these tracks venture into crumbling polyrhythmic dancefloor rhythms, revealing a kind of dark abstract electronica infused with the unsettling ambience of a horror movie soundtrack that leads to the pulsating minimal black techno of the closing track "Absolute Will" that actually dips into a very evil but nonetheless danceable dose of skeletal pulse that resembles something off of Chain Reaction filtered through the aphotic haze of a world in permanent midnight. This surreal chthonic industrial is total nightmare music, disturbing and mesmerizing and often reminding me of the sound of Zeit-era Tangerine Dream merging with the mystical ecstatices and experimental electronics of Coil, and Evan Albam's nightmarish score for Begotten...very cool...