purpleimage666:

“*Killer album recommended for followers of Actress, Andy Stott, and Matthewdavid* Now this one’s nuts – coming from the twisted psyche of Deep Tapes head honcho Alex Gray, over the course of a slender 45 minutes we’re subjected to techno, jazz, rock, early electronics, music concrete and f*#k knows what else. It’s like a mixtape put together by someone you really respect, but who’s a bit frayed around the edges (and might possibly go out and kill randoms with a butterfly knife at night). Every track fizzes and twitches with an unpredictable retching shudder, and the whole thing is encased in the sort of tape noise you’d expect to find on a record that’s been sitting in the storage closet of a Wolverhampton public library for twenty years. It’s irreverent somehow in a way that so many retro-fetishizing cassette-scene missives have avoided – Gray has a power over his clear obsession with musical form and as the record dives from searing noise into sparkling library music or pulsing house, it somehow makes perfect sense. ‘Head Tear of the Drunken Sun’ isn’t an easy record to pick apart, but it’s easy to fall head over heels in love with – you know what to do.” - boomkat