Build A Fort Set It On Fire. What a great name. As for the music, hell, that’s pretty good too. This is a record that you can listen to again and again and again and still find something new that you didn’t hear the first time.
Most of the drone and ambience is pretty reminiscent of the stuff Eno & Fripp were doing on No Pussyfooting, which is by no means a bad thing. They are masterfully layered with so many samples that this really shouldn’t work, but it does. It really does. The first track "Numbers Don’t Hate" is a collection of eerie drones and string samples that meld to form a wicked sound. Meanwhile, "Rioyeti No!" wouldn’t sound out of place on Supersilent’s 6. Dirty electronics covered in an industrial drone. This stuff can be fucking evil at times. Real scary.
Standout track on the album by far is "Victorian Paper Wolf." This track is killer. It takes all the best aspects of the album, puts them together and produces a sound that is so intense, so ace and so catchy (yeah I said catchy about a drone album!) that it makes you think: why couldn’t they have made the rest like this?
If you like drone and noise, this album is totally there. It’s got all the stuff you’ve probably heard before, but honestly, these guys package it completely differently. Worth it for "Victorian Paper Wolf" alone! Killer record.
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