Deserted Factory
This album counts 7 tracks in 36 minutes, in time varying in between 46 seconds and a little over 19 minutes. The album may be short, but while listening and "getting into it" you really don't get that feeling.
According to the website Abandoned Child makes 'dark noise' and those words fit the music indeed. With an instrumentarium of - as far as can be heard - guitars, noisemakers, voices and effects, an atmosphere is created which lies somewhere in between Throbbing Gristle, Cindytalk and oldschool guitar noise. Though in all honesty it must also be said that it doesn't have either TG's power nor Cindytalk's structure and melancholia. These are meant to be pure soundwise references.
The cover is a colourful, psychedelic drawing and that is another indication on what to expect. It would be music poetic to the mind of Timothy Leary. Especially the last track on the album, the epic 19 minute 'Ascension' which gave this album it's title, is worth mesmerizing and sliding away into another consciousness.
Other highlights on this album are 'Bayou', 'The road of Pain' and 'A Ritual of Captive Bone'. And together with 'Ascension' that's a positive review on 30 of the 36 minutes. Not a bad score, ey? And if the production would've been better, the grade would have been higher too.
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