Silvester

Happening upon this record in the back pages of Electronic Sound magazine, I really didn't expect all that much from an album describing itself as an ambient re-working of a seminal Norwegian black metal touchstone. "Silvester" has, surprisingly, become one of my albums of the year.

Stranger still is its lasting impression on me after just one, semi-conscious play-through on my commute home. Drifting in and out of sleep, I found the instrumentation incredibly violent and sinister. ... read more