��As one half of the dark drone / spectral noise duo Caulbearer, Cody Drasser has already started to craft an interesting body of work within the realm of black kosmische drift, a sound that he explores even further with his first solo disc on his own Peacock Window label, plunging deeper into the more shadowy depths of abstract, formless electronic ambience. On The Fate Of Things, Drasser creates a dense black kosmische fog of distant industrial rumbling, where vast, majestic choral voices are smeared across immense time-stretched drones, and fragments of eerie melody appear out of nothingness, woven into infinite, hypnotic loops that spin out through the thick sonic murk of Drasser's recordings. As massive and layered as these monochromatic dronescapes are, he's done so using a rather limited palette of sounds, using just dense layers of processed guitar drone, synthesizer, electronic effects and minimal field recordings to create these creepy, immersive ambient driftscapes.

�� Parts of the The Fate Of Things drift into almost Lustmordian stretches of deep subterranean thrum, like on the abyssal orchestrations that swell up out of the dark depths of "Through Endless", those sounds beginning to resemble an entire string symphony that has been sent tumbling in slow motion down into the abyss, whole horn sections smeared into vague black shapes, the sound haunting and dread-filled as it evolves into a slow-motion soundtrack for some poor soul's gradual descent into Hell. The production uses lots of delay and feedback alongside the gouts of buzzing black drone that run through the tracks, filling out those billowing clouds of dark drift that slowly curl through the blackness, the recording heavily layered with sheets of metallic whirr and hum, the album shifting into distant rumblings that sound as if they could be emanating from some massive freighter slowly crawling through the blackness of space, while strange glitchy signals and distorted voices glimmer briefly like distant starlight in the blackness. Some of the other highlights on this album include the submerged bathysphere drift and clusters of cosmic keyboard notes that swirl together on "Liminal Dissolution", and the scrambled deep-space signals and melodic murk of closer "Further And Further", all of which mark further ley-lines cutting deep into the darkest and most apocalyptic strains of isolationist ambient. It's a solid entry into the realm of Troum / Yen Pox-style industrial drift, and fans of intensely bleak industrial/electronic ambience found on the Malignant label will no doubt really dig Drasser's take on that sort of sonic desolation.

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