Merzbow – Circular Reference [CD]

“Masami Akita continues his work as the world’s premiere extreme dynamicist on Circular Reference, his latest full-length and first for No Holiday. It’s a torrent of synthesized tones colliding against punishing layers of feedback and midrange noise. But there are also snatches of lurching rhythms to be found, as well as moments of relative uneasy calm. More than anything, it’s distinctly Merzbow.”