THISQUIETARMY x AWAY - Machine Consciousness, Phase III

And here's what I brought from the merch table in the MS Stubnitz on November 9th: Appearantly the two collaborations between soundscape gardener thisquietarmy and Voivod drummer Away haven't been enough yet. So here we go with another round of atmospherically layered guitar and synth noises and drums!

THISQUIETARMY x AWAY - Machine Consciousness, Phase III (CD) (2022)

This album came from the same recording sessions in 2019 as its two predecessors, but a photograph used for the cover and even more so the title before the appendix Phase III not being "The Singulary" again point to this work being somehow apart from them - but not so far that you would loose the chronological connection or the  pattern of naming the individual tracks with greek letters and binary numbers.

The main difference is that this third joint album needed more post production and got it in the shape of guest musicians fom Eric Quach's full live band on trumpet, trombone and bass.

What's more to be said without repeating my previous review? It's the same brand of raw, minimalistically structured ambient drone post rock sprinkled with metal and industrial influences, but also with some beautiful extra jazzy onion skins around it. A fitting, slow-burning finale for this great trilogy.

Even though I could have snatched the vinyl version without postage, I went for the CD, not only to match the formats of Phase I and II in my collection, but also because it has an additional track. And more good stuff is more good stuff.