Christ. – Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack

Album Review by Bram E. Gieben | 19 Nov 2012
Album title: Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
Artist: Christ.
Label: Parallax Sounds
Release date: Out Now

It's extremely unfair that nearly every single mention of Scottish producer Christ. is prefaced with the fact that he is a former member of Boards of Canada. Look, we just did it again. On Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to a forthcoming Japanese anime, he again shows convincingly why he deserves acclaim and recognition in his own right. The cold, industrial-ambient soundscapes and electro workouts he has created have little or nothing in common with the sun-drenched psychedelica of BoC – as is often the case, the work of Christ. is more robotic, darker in tone, and much more wilfully abstract.

Highlights include the sprawling, sub-bass heavy electro of Zeroth Law, replete with shimmering beams of analogue synth, and the claustrophobic dub techno of Singular, lined with static pops and crackles, echoing piano and melancholy synth-string arrangements. Finishing with the sprawling, immaculately layered, hip-hop-influenced Kardashev Type One, Cathexis is perhaps the most accessible and impressive Christ. release since '07's Blue Shift Emissions. [Bram E Gieben]

 

Stream the album at http://soundcloud.com/apechrist/sets/christ-cathexis-motion-picture