“Flitting Splits Reverb Adage” splutters and glitches like an Aphex Twin B-side from 1997 it's doubtful that Locks and Mazurek's fans saw this coming. “The Concord Hour” is one of the pair's strangest pieces, a warped choral mantra with snake-charming synth and mesmerizing acoustic guitar riffs, exotic marimba patter, and a beautifully desolate cornet solo. “Breeze of Time” is a riveting confluence of motorized bass synth, bell-tree tintinnabulation, and poignant cornet wails. Some highlights: “The Sun Returns” boasts absurdly ballistic beats and a haunting melody from some unplaceable spot on the globe-it's a total dance-floor-baffler. It's one of the weirdest releases in International Anthem's history. A month of intense daily listening might yield the overall meaning of the album's enigmatic word-sound mosaic. Most of the sonically unpredictable tracks run under two minutes and contain snippets of spoken-word declarations and manifestos, or masquerade as jarring, pseudo advertisements.
The forthcoming New Future City Radio full-length (due July 28) plays out like a mind-scrambling pirate-radio broadcast.
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