Monday 23 October 2023

Obelisk Ruins - Thought​-​Vision​-​Doubt

Obelisk Ruins is a self-described "home-recording, sonic cut-and-paste mutant project" founded by Boston-based artist Andrew Petzold-Eley, who creates hypnotising, experimental music alongside two collaborators Douglas Tesnow and Evan Hydzik. Their latest record "Thought-Vision-Doubt" came out earlier this year in June via Katuktu Collective and has been haunting my speakers for the past few days. It's a smokey blend of noir jazz, sample-backed beats and elusive trip-hop, accentuated by live instruments (that clarinet and bass is heavenly) and hard to pin down samples, sitting somewhere between moody David Lynch soundtracks, "Endtroducing"-era DJ Shadow and Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.

You can buy the album on tape here or here, and listen to it below.