Jake Muir's 'Pareidolia' Transforms Extreme Metal Fragments into Ambient Soundscapes
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Brad Sanders
26d ago· 3 min readenReview
Summary
Jake Muir's latest ambient album, Pareidolia, repurposes intros, outros, and interludes from hundreds of extreme metal albums, transforming overlooked fragments into new sonic landscapes. Following his previous works that found beauty in church bells (Campana Sonans) and vintage gay porn film scores (Bathhouse Blues), Muir continues his practice of uncovering hidden musical depth in forgotten or marginal sounds.
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PitchforkJake Muir's 'Pareidolia' Transforms Extreme Metal Fragments into Ambient Soundscapespitchfork.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledJake Muir has a gift for hearing depth in sounds that might otherwise be deemed forgettable.
The omnipresent church bells that fade into the background of European city life became the focal point of Campana Sonans, his brilliant album of manipulated field recordings from Berlin.
On Bathhouse Blues, he sampled incidental music from vintage gay porn films, finding a dark pulse wriggling beneath their surface eroticism.
Muir's latest album, Pareidolia, mines the oft-overlooked intros, outros, and interludes of hundreds of extreme metal albums for raw material, reshaping them
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