There's few Perila records that miss the spot, but it has to be said that this latest long player, her first for West Mineral, has to rank somewhere close to the best, a left turn excursion into post-industrial, dreamworld ambience that hits just the right combination of immersive, abrasive and disassociative. It's a busy lane in which Perila's Alexandra Zakharenko finds herself, not least the one of her own making - there's over ten records carrying that name since debuting in 2019 - which is what makes Omnis Festinatio Ex Parte Diaboli Est so enticing, a collection that sees the artist push out into more challenging, but certainly more distinct and ultimately more rewarding terrain. Both Perila and West Mineral are central to what is widely considered contemporary ambient (at some point we'll start capitalising that term and then you'll really be in trouble), which is fine as shorthand but does do a little disservice to the hybrid nature of much of the music being made. Across these nine phantasmic compositions, Zakharenko channels the gauzy dub minimalism of Chain Reaction, the industrial-throb of a late period Dominick Fernow production, the dreamy dystopia of Tropic of Cancer (and it's no insult to say it's easy to imagine this being on Blackest Ever Black in another time), and the hidden reverse of Time Machines-era Coil and Nocturnal Emissions. That's a lot to chew on, but it's made to work remarkably well, a suite of strange combinations that allows the unsettling and the seductive to align in perfect disharmony. Ideal sounds, it would seem, for a broken down world.
FFO: Vatican Shadow, Nocturnal Emissions, Tropic of Cancer, Time Machines-era Coil
Perila - Omnis Festinatio Ex Parte Diaboli Est
£23.00
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