One-man organic sturm and scowl with this fourth record for Load. Following 2006 s peace trials blend of campfire informed Wilheim Reich downer crunch and burn, this new release journeys into deeper tunnels of solid frozen anthracite. While definitely part of the contemporary American noise scene, Kites (Chris Forgues) blends percussive chug and homemade sine wave generation into a dynamic somewhere in between early 80s electro schoolyard loiterers Throbbing Gristle and sheffield s Cabaret Voltaire. Where peace trials took the song form to an almost confusing and happy place, songs on the new record feature a colder tone. Gone are the stringed instruments of the last record, replaced with more home constructed oscillation batteries .disembodied voices ping-pong from speaker to speaker, dry percussive chatter fills the headphone foam and you are prisoner in a room you can never leave.