ALISTAIR CROSBIE: Sad Faces Of The Moon / Forest Of Swollen Eyes (Peasant Magik / Sick Head)

Robert Rowlands on Apr 14th 2008 12:17 am

Alistair Crosbie: Sad Faces Of The Moon Alistair Crosbie: Forest Of Swollen Eyes

ALISTAIR CROSBIE
Sad Faces Of The Moon / Forest Of Swollen Eyes
PM26 / Sick Head 13
Peasant Magik 2008 / Sick Head 2008
02 Tracks. 29mins01secs / 05 Tracks. 40mins12secs

The bedroom on the face of it is not the most likely place to find yourself staring into the void. Sleep, sex and TV, perhaps, but little else is usually on offer. Yet from the confines of his four-walled bedroom studio Alistair Crosbie has produced two records here that look oblivion straight in the face, and refuse to flinch. His source material, towers of distortion and feedback, is used to construct artificial universes of emptiness, where meaning and direction are overwhelmed by walls of noise. The results might at times seem frightening, but these are both truly startling releases.
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