Review: Rejections “Resin In The Filter”

21 Jun 2013 — Lukas Dubro

The music put out by UK based cassette label Opal Tapes is what we can easily classify as a state of the art: it ranges from avant-garde dance music to new age drone, refusing to stand by a particular genre or sound limitation. We've already featured the sound explorer Uio Loi, who mashed together neo-disco, noise and trance; while other stand-outs from the imprint is clearly The Pagan Cinema by Australian beat wizard Tuff Sherm or the underground rookie M. Geddes Gengras. "It was supposed to be about people coming from house and techno who were more interested in making textural music or non-rhythm based music, and people coming from 'outsider' music and making more rhythmic music", summarized label founder Stephen Bishop on Resident Advisor back in January, and indeed so.

UK's drone outfit Rejections and his brand new full-lenght Resin In The Filter makes no exception. Building up on Bishops explanation, Rejections is obviously classified as this kind of 'outsider music', as extremly harsh interference clouds centers his music. The tribal beats that arise and manically hammers from time to time can be understood as a welcoming complement to increase the threatening atmosphere, and as impressive as it is, the tension never really drops thoughout the record's 50 minute-long spin. All in all, Rejections has succeed to create a post-apocalyptic world sounding somewhat like the end of modern civilization, constraining moments of beauty into the otherwise hopeless landscape. 

Resin In The Filter is available for orders now via Opal Tapes.