Those of you delighting in the occasional eerie reports filed back by Hole House will no doubt warm to the news that the long awaited final investigation papers have been gathered together, recorded and are now ready for dispatch. ‘a stranger in town’ the debuting full length from the mysterious Hole House is not for the faint of heart, a stone tape styled slice of haunting radiophonic disturbia whose bleakly toned sound manipulations resonate with such overpowering remoteness and claustrophobia that it literally extinguishes light with its suffocating shadow. Amid these nine chilling accounts, macabre manifestations formed of frequency manipulations and droning low end pulsars potmark a fraught atmospheric whose icy reverberations serve as an antenna drawing memory echoes from their surroundings, the back story in case you missed it, is that tthese recordings where taken from the inside of an abandoned and notoriously eerie former VHS rental shop with a dark pre history. Reference wise ‘a stranger in town’ eerily navigates the micro sound shadow worlds which a while back both dreams of tall buildings and roadside picnic explored whilst simultaneously picking through the sparsely detailed debris of mount Vernon arts lab’s obliquely excellent ‘hob’s lane’ revisualising of ‘quatermass’. Isolated by a dread foreboding, Hole House superbly execute the fright quotient to the nth degree taking you out from your comfort zone and dropping you into an alien landscape that’s frought with creaks, groans and all manner of nightmarish quease, unsettling doesn’t begin to describe what lies in wait for the enquiring visitor. https://aetheric-records.bandcamp.com/album/a-stranger-in-town
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