NATE YOUNG: Regression; Limited Edition Purple Vinyl LP (2017 re-issue)

Experimental, Ambient, Noise, Nate Young, Wolf Eyes; Limited Edition Translucent Purple Vinyl Re-issue (2019) – Ex Used condition

You could neither classify Regression as a Noise record nor an Ambient one, instead the synth dissections and tape treatments more closely reference early electronic music. ‘Trapped‘ offers little of the claustrophobia suggested by its title, although the continual woody knocking sounds and filthy oscillations do engender a sense of unease, while ‘Dread‘ brings to mind the Desmond Briscoe soundtrack to Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape.  ‘Under The Skin‘ returns to the more esoteric, intangible sound designs that characterised the album’s opening, writhing around in a spluttering, tactile fashion that’s at once sonically rather beautiful and deeply sinister, modulating through grisly synthesiser gestures while more textural, percussive sounds flood through dub-style tape delays.