Jute Gyte

yeah seriously! the last three compositions are weirder and more difficult than even the sparrow ep

second track is also amazing tbf (haha it starts eh...)

Can't wait to get home from work today for this

Will listen when I'm in the "mood". sund4r tells me it's his best yet

Still early to say that definitively tbf but it does seem like he's taking his thing further out. I think this sounds a little better than the last one, also.

The tracks are really long and I haven't really broken down the compositions as compositions yet but a lot of great moments.

I've reached the point where I can confidently state that the first two tracks are brilliant, although there is a really obvious mistake kept in during the track 2 build! presumably kept in on purpose

https://i.imgur.com/9vULo0I.png

Speakers on 11 and on dis ting!

Title track is what's inside the Boîte Diabolique, 42 and soon to be 43 scarred souls forever

First impression: this album seems quite a bit more... accessible (relatively speaking obv) than its predecessors? There's bigger spaces in between the riffing and microtonal freakery. The build up in the first two songs doesn't throw you off in the deep end immediately (tho obv you'll find yourself there at the end). Less relentless, more menacing and creeping up on you.

Mice Eating's lost couple of minutes are simply beautiful in a sense his music is hardly ever beautiful, ie. straightforward.

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Ok the above was just about the first two songs :-/

"Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth, which signifieth Beyond—these words be carved in letters of gold upon the arch of the great portal of the Temple of Roon that men have builded looking towards the East upon the Sea, where Roon is carved as a giant trumpeter, with his trumpet pointing towards the East beyond the Seas."

Deadddd

This is my shit. Swiveling synth like sounds playing ping pong on your soul as the table, ghouls trying to climb up from out the netherworld, abrasive riffs, just a bit o' proper despair all round, creepy crawly fingerpicking. And again an outro of what, two, three minutes, that sounds like insects running amok inside your skull culminating in an obliterating white noise. How could anyone not love this?!

the opening minutes of "fauna of mirrors" are pure nightmare fuel

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yeah that one

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you guys weren't kidding, huh... When after the warbled gibberish teh riffs comes in... Chills down my spine

we all love creepy vocal fx right

3.30 to 5.30 bit in 'Fauna of Mirrors' is ex-qui-site

xp omt

Circling down ever further w/ the beginning of 'The Norms', which feels as catatonic as it feels cleansing. The whole composition feels like sitting in a cart, not controlling the horse, and constantly feel the stabbing of the cart in your side as you make twists and turns, down unknown corridors and alleys with mirror clad walls.

I know I'm not doing anyone a favour here with all this. But yeah, this is a great fucking album. Precisely because it comes from such a dark, dark place, like LJ mentioned. In a way it feels more accessible than his last couple of albums, but that's probably because I've only touched the surface. Too afraid for a headphone listen right now.

Last minutes of 'The Norms' are again heavenly, w/ the bells. Unearthly delight, lush like I've not heard from him ever before (though I don't know all his stuff).

'Oviri': the swallowing is whole, after being devoured this oddly feels like a warm bath. Within an absolute nightmare. (it is this one that ends way too soon and sudden for me tbh. I wasn't ready yet)

Amazing.

Yep, bought it today and listened on speakers and this is probably his best work.

disagree but it's still great. first half is stunning, second half maybe a fraction too abstruse to delight me 100% but still full of dark thrills

This... might not be his best but it's probably his most bizarre even by his standards. There are a few HOLY FUUUUCK moments but I don't like the way it jump-cuts between loud and quiet sections, I get that it's meant to be jarring but comes across as kind of lazy writing imo. Only listened to it the once so I guess this might change.

The review by that certain fucking dipshit on RYM might actually be the dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet, including transcriptions of Trump interviews

Mine hasn't arrived yet

It's still very good, my enthusiasm waned a bit with Perdurance but I'm pretty much back on board

sund4r has been saying for weeks its his best yet

It's not up there with Perdurance for me, yet, but I think it's a great album. And I love the change in dynamics; the 'quiet' sections still have so much going on in them.

Been listening to Ghost Sickness and it's great. Also, which is as odd as how kinda groovy Young Eagle turned out to be, it's mostly just very straightforwardly pretty.

yeah that one is mostly just pretty, sad electro with an excellent cover. dude has range

He does. Eagerly awaiting his "straightforwardly pretty" black metal album now

'isolation' has a very straightforwardly pretty opening track!

happy new four-hour Jute Gyte ambient album day!

https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/

EVERYONE's copying Autechre now haha

not that keen on his electronic stuff but out of four hours theres surely something good nestled away in there. fucking hell, this guy is insanely prolific

Temple of Roon

twp lol

it does say it was created 2002-2018 - this is clearly an ongoing project that's finally ready (like most of his stuff)

so far it isn't quite as gloriously fucked as Dialectics but it is pleasantly unsettling

I've never been into his electronic albums before but I'm actually really digging this five tracks in.

It's fucking amazing is what it is, this. I've never heard a single ambient Jute Gyte track before in my life, didn't know he did this!

Between Autechre's NTS sessions and this: I do not for the life of me know why we deserve such beauty.

I made it to I think the second track before I heard some growling. Are my ears deceiving me? Because I know the dude's background, but I'm really not in the mood for growling these days.

I'm hearing little to no growling? Plunged in at the 5th track, 'The cave is empty', and that was me sorted. I did not know this man could deal in mournful bliss as well.

Do you mean "growling" as in extreme metal vocals? Because I don't remember any on the whole album but tbf there were times when I had it on the background while doing other things?

Maybe it was just generally distressed vocals? I'm thinking of the start of "Another Pioneer," sort of Ligeti meets throat singing.

I hear layered chopped up and processed voices there but not growling.

OK, moaning, then.

for me JG is often kinda like -- idk -- some of those doorstop authors you might have in your library who you know you'll probably enjoy when you get to 'em, but at the same time they're kind of a slog & eat up all yr time so you get to 'em less than you might. I have two albums, have listened to 'em some, but I very seldom say "you know what'd hit the spot right now is some Jute Gyte" - it's like doing critical theory, I enjoy the ride very occasionally. But fuck if this ambient one doesn't sound fantastic

"the cave is empty"

Oviri now has a vinyl option on Bandcamp.

'birefringence' out july 1st. gird yourselves

Hammershøi represent.

would love to attend an exhibition of the paintings he uses for covers

I'd watch that, imagine if he'd get those all in one museum!

Stoked for the new album. Reading the wiki on 'birefringence' gave me a blank stare for about five minutes straight, I trust the album to make more sense.

would it make more sense if i told you birefringence or double refraction is a key concept in pynchon's 'against the day', which i basically made jute gyte read lol

So you're the culprit/philanthropist.

we all need a little more dual-reality in our lives tbh

More of an infinite fractal reality man myself but yeah.