3.17.22 by Jacob DeRaadt

Viimeinen loosely translates to ‘rough’ or ‘final’ in Finnish. On this self-titled tape’s A side track, “Dissolved Metal Salts Cloak Your Lips with a Bitter Film,” we’re treated to shifting episodes of static sheets of radio waves swimming around the stereo field. This is a slow descent into a droning sea of TV static punctuated by obscured fog horns. Sudden shifts into slurping tape loops keep things dynamic and asymmetric. 

On the B side “Deformed Faces Agape at You From a Tangle of Limbs” opens with some haunting bowed reverberations and organic tape mulch textures that dissolve into hypnotic loops, like industrial machine belts seizing up in odd time signatures. There’s a nice usage of crescendos at various points in this release, as well as a few jump edits and slow track fades. Straddling the territories of harsher textures and manipulated field recordings, this tape hits all my sweet spots.  Recommended!