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| | Earplug | Twice-monthly Electronic Music News, Album Reviews, Festival Updates, and Features |
 | | KTL member Stephen O'Malley terms this recording "DABM," or "digital analogue fl metal," but anyone familiar with O'Malley's work in the groups Sunn O))) or Khanate will know that it needn't be a contradiction in terms. |
 | | O'Malley and his collaborator Peter Rehberg (aka Mego co-founder Pita) layer waves of electromagnetic resonance, kicked-amplifier crackle, and racetrack-worthy white noise in six long tracks of gruesome drone. |
 | | Considering the artists at work, it's not surprising that KTL shapeshifts uneasily, at times laying bare the vibrations of strings and tube-driven air, at times disappearing into a morass of signal processing. |
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