Built From Memories is the first release in ten years from Automated Acoustics. The album is very thematic and most of the songs to my ears sounded like something that would accompany a sci-fi big budget blockbuster movie. I often felt the songs somewhere between Hans Simmer and Zola Jesus. There are four songs but five remixes making it a total of nine songs.
The first song is entitled “Battle of The Gods (Exotic Mix)” and this song sounds Persian and one the more thematic songs in the batch. It earns its name and sounds like a war cry. That vibe continues with “Barebow Rebellion” which has an epic quality with huge sounding war drums, vocal chants and more. I also kept thinking of dinosaurs and the Mesozoic era for some reason. The album starts to feel sci-fi with “Ghosting Again” but is very dark as if we are exploring the villain's terrain with catapults, AI and other tropes from the genre. “Barebow Rebellion (Warehouse Mix)” is a club driven song with a thick kick drum. I was reminded of the exceptional act The Knife. “Ghosting Again (Jungle Gitch Mix)” sounds exactly as it’s described and we get into percussive heavy and fast electronic drums much more in the style of Aphex Twin. “Swept Away'' gets back into movie mode and made me think of huge battle sequences. The more meditative “Barebow Rebellion (Ambient Mix)” is closer to the recent Jon Hopkins track “Singing Bowl (Ascension).” We hear some rare guitar “Swept Away (Stripped Mix)” and overall is a more subdued version of the original. The album ends where it started with “Battle of The Gods (no Exotic mix)” and is just as epic as the opener. This is a huge sounding thematic album. If you enjoy some of the aforementioned underground electronic artists with a healthy dose of Hans Simmer this should be in your music rotation.
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