Broken Face #10

While Flick was recorded over the course of cpl of year's time during the second half of the 90's, this brand new release from Es is a document of what's been going on at Sami Sänpäkkilä's home base in Ulvila, Finland during 2000. The sounds conveyed on "A Love Cycle" are unquestionably warmer, but the biggest difference is perhaps that the previously heard guitar-oriented soundscapes are to a large extent replaced by a jagged kind of corrosive digital damage. The opening title track finds cracling and flickering electronica over layers of monotonous sounds that echoes like distant church bells ringing in for Sunday service. These lovely blurry soundscapes are followed by the shorter but equally

brilliant "Les Fleurs Des Bonnes Auditrices" which moves over more easily digested aural territories with the layered humming female vocals of Elissa Määttänen accompanying soft and beautiful but still shredded synth sounds. The thirteen minute long "We Make Holes In the Heart To Brake Universe Apart" is slightly different as it reaches some actual loud modulation before it sinks back to more interesting scattered voicings again. The real surprise though comes in the rocking (although not in the traditional sense of the word) sound storm of "Twenty-Five Twenty-Five" with buzzing and whirring synth over more structured bleeps and loops. Then the closing "She Puts Out The Fire In Her Heart With Her Tears" is more