��One of the more recent new releases from Dominick Fernow's power-electronics/death synth outfit Prurient, Washed Against The Rocks offers a pair of tracks that follow in the vein of the jet-black electronica featured on his Bermuda Drain and Through The Window albums.

�� First is "Doors Closed In Secrecy", a haunted dronescape laced with the moans of distant disembodied spirits, a low, almost subliminal bass drone fluttering at the center of the track, thin veins of gleaming high-end feedback threaded through the piece, forming a web of spectral light that shimmers as metallic reverberations echo in the distance. As an infectious rhythm slowly begins to rise to the surface, it slowly transforms this into a kind of abstract, industrial noise-techno similar to his work with Vatican Shadow, but more muted and hypnotic as it pulses within the vast penumbra of low-frequency thrum that enfolds it.

�� The b-side "Washed Against The Rocks", on the other hand, is an absolutely gorgeous wash of dreamy synthesizer blur, vaguely orchestral waves of sound that slowly rise and fall above the peals of funerary feedback and swells of cavernous fog that billow out across the depths of Prurient's mournful ambience. Total Tangerine Dream worship of the best sort, spare and simply arranged, but absolutely permeated in an atmosphere of heartache and longing that most funeral doom wannabes would kill to access.

�� Comes in a high quality printed jacket with printed inner sleeve, pressed on heavyweight colored vinyl in an edition of five hundred copies.