Another EP from Cruel Diagonals has arrived - Calcite

Only 4 tracks and 15 minutes but it covers the creation of the earth, it’s destruction by man and it’s collapse until only rock remains. Quite a weighty subject to cover in quarter of an hour.

Opener, Scintillation, is a like a classical piece of work being performed in a cave built on washes of synths whilst the wordless mezzo-soprano voice soars and swoops beautifully over the music.

After that the weirdness really set in. In Disobedience it sounds like someone tuning the oscillator on a large power plant and if you’re listening in headphones, it rumbles and vibrates through your skull.

The last two tracks take it even further into the unknown, Sounds are twisted, stretched and distorted until you’re not really sure if you are still realms of what could be described as music. It seems at this point a long time since the beautiful opening track.

It’s another beguiling by very challenging release from an artist you will either embrace or assiduously avoid