Lite skriverier om Ondo och Yrsel

Crucial Blast skriver om Ondo - "Sol"

"Finding Ondo's releases hasn't been easy. I've been keeping an eye out for more of the band's limited discs after hearing their excellent offerings on the splits with Nekrasov and Austrasian Goat, but so far the only thing I've managed to pick up for C-Blast is this limited edition disc from 2010 that features one thirty-three minute track of lush chthonic ambience. It's pretty great, too. Ondo creates an immersive world of sinister ambient sound, a finely crafted mix of churning abyssal dronescapes and layers of digital glitchery, the sprawling piece moving through fields of metallic chiming and vast oceanic drift, vaguely defined electronic melodies spiraling through the ether. There are swells of rumbling machine noise and nebulous feedback, fragments of backwards sound and looped noise constantly breaking the surface, the tone shifting from dreamlike and surreal to menacing over the course of the disc as eerie music-box melodies and sheets of metallic whirr trail over gusts of dank subterranean air. Crashing metal and clanking rhythms echo in the distance, the industrial rumblings cut with high-pitched electronic scrapes and random computer noises. At times, this is comparable to Troum at their absolute darkest, but when Sol reaches the last ten minutes of the track, it becomes much darker and heavier, the clanking industrial rhythms and noises in the distance becoming more prominent, and a creepy minor key melody takes form, playing out over increasing layers of dark orchestral sound over the dimly lit world of machinery and raging black oceans, birdsong and the cawing of crows, rattling chains and crackling fires, closing with a twilight haze of industrial ambience.
Limited to one hundred copies, and packaged in a full-color folder sleeve."

och Norman Records skriver om Yrsel - "Sacrifice"...

"Do you like dark ambient droney type stuff? Well, you’ve come to the right place then, haven’t you? This one here’s got people from Ondo and The Austrasian Goat making ominous rumbles that sound like they should be on Utech. Weighty low- and mid-end drones that slowly melt into your subconscious and make you feel like you’re a character in some bleak futuristic sci-fi movie and you’re hiding out in an abandoned landfill site trying to figure out how to kill all the malfunctioning kill-bots before they destroy mankind forever. On the second side it gets a bit more melodic than the fairly flat first side, but this is still bleak and slow-moving stuff for people who want something dark to immerse themselves in when they’re alone at home late at night with their thoughts and they need something suitably creepy and sinister. Expertly crafted feel-bad music."