Toner Low
II

LA RECENSIONE

1) one.

2) two.

3) three.

4) four.

Four untitled tracks for a total duration of sixty minutes flat.

"II," the second work (dated 2008) by the Dutch trio Toner Low, picks up where their first self-titled album left off: the psychedelic darkness dictated by the artificial paradises of which composers and consumers of that genre, known as stoner metal, are frequent users.

As in the first album, echoes of drone nightmares, hypnotic loops of megalithic riffs, and vocal invocations worthy of a desert nomad worshipping the moon, paint a pitch-black psychedelic nightmare. Noises coming from the toxic subconscious, cosmic energy transforming into sound waves; music as solid as marble that carves hundreds of abstract images in the mind. It is impossible to explain in words the "metal-lysergic" nature of these three mushroom-dependent artists. Alcohol, drugs, psychotropic medications, used as tools to amplify perceptual states, are here bent to serve the sound, in search of an alternative world, of a parallel universe, where the rules of the dynamics of bodies and light rays are directly dictated by the individual's psyche. Lights will be so black because we will be black. Sounds so heavy because of our exploring new multicolored horizons. A breathless rush into the dark side of the sensory psyche that leaves you agonizing, lying on the ground with your brain in some other dream and LSD squirting out of your ears in fountains blacker than oil.

Listening to this ultrasensorial journey is like running naked at 300 KM/H and vaporizing against a tank.