Winds of the dead air

“Active from the mid eighties until 1997, Nox have been one of the major French industrial rock bands and Laurent Perrier was one of their members. After that experience he released an album under the Cape Fear moniker. Now, thirteen years later Cape Fear is back with a 300 copies vinyl album titled WINDS OF THE DEAD AIR. The five tracks of the album are in balance from digital metal and dub where guitar layers are filtered and multiplied just to build a looping wave of changing melodies which duet with sub bass frequencies and rhythms (this is mainly true on side A because "Haunted" and "Wild palms" have no rhythm section while "Hope" has the alternation of synth arpeggios/guitar riffs on dub rhythms). For sure WINDS OF THE DEAD AIR is the child of the old guitar sound Laurent was producing a decade ago but the way of dealing with sound production (the choice of picking guitar sounds that seem sampled and filtered as well as the synth melodies used here and there), in my opinion, is influenced by his releases under his own name or under the Heal, Zonk't and Pylone monikers and this is good because in this way new stimulus will enhance your listening session.” Chain d.l.k