Imperial Horizon by Kevin Drumm is a further examination into sustained tone as most recently heard on his previous Hospital Productions benchmark album, Imperial Distortion, stretching out minimalism to unreached heights of serene ambient, lulling electronic drones slowly transform over the course of the hour plus piece in constant flux, echoing both an existential terror and Zen calm. Mutations grow so quietly only the body opens to identify this change while the mind closes. The ephemeral and seeming li...   [ read more ]

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What does a person do when faced with a work like Imperial Distortion? There are rare moments in an artist's work where they reveal a greater truth. Kevin Drumm has already made such a statement with his last major solo work, 2002's Sheer Hellish Miasma. Where that record took noise music to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, Imperial Distortion is an altogether different beast. Beauty as an aesthetic can be as terrifying as horror, desire unfulfilled, romance that lingers and never goes away, no...   [ read more ]

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On the three-song Land of Lurches album, Kevin Drumm mixes abrasive synthesizers with various electronics to produce an astoundingly intricate piece of noise. On the first untitled track, Drumm's colorful and aggressive layers of unique sounds get the disc off to a dizzying start. Initially sounding like random noise, textures and rhythms are soon evident, resulting in a powerful overdose of intoxicating tones. Track two starts off with a watery sound, before a dramatic sound collage t...   [ read more ]

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