Folian - Ache Pillars (2019)
Coming to us from the locale of
Portland, Oregon, the latest release from one-man project Folian
features four tracks approaching lingering pain and consumptive
brooding from an uncommon angle. Mixing low-frequency oscillations,
haunted vocals, meticulously-mixed string sparseness, and a bevy of
shifting electronic textures, the music of Ache Pillars
aims for tangential listening recognition, keeping a thick swaddle of
ambiguity to the emotions and structural direction, but prodding out
such intriguing combinations of its sounds as to demand an emotional
response. Or a physical one, as goosebumps don't seem like an
inappropriate reaction to the intersecting layers of reverb and delay
banks.
Metal purists will probably be too
weirded out or offended by the absence of genre boundaries to really
dig the experience, but the near-half-hour ride is one which
persistently demonstrates pains-taking efforts to fuse unpredictable
emotionality with the unhinged electronics, with quite an impressive
result. About half of the EP's run-time goes to the final track,
“Where All This Dust Comes From”, which breaks from the momentum
built by the preceding tracks' run in order to build its own upwards
creep into claustrophobic tension. Something best taken all in one
go, but each track shows different facets of musician David Fylstra's
exacting technique and enviable creativity.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Gnaw Their
Tongues, Pale World, Sutekh Hexen, Ulver, White Darkness
~
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