Altered Zones

I've been sort of obsessed with Narrow Road To The Interior, the creepy new Angels In America album out now on Ehse Records. In it, we find AIA's female half, Moppy Pont, mumbling out spoken word terror over tense horror flick atmospheres replete with dank, foggy drips and scratches from off in the distance. The entire record sounds pained, as if the spoken musings were pushed out through Moppy's throat against her will like she was a near-empty tube of toothpaste gripped hard by a possessing force.

However, my favorite track is the least dark of the bunch. "Follow Me Out" actually sounds hopeful next to all the grey coffin sounds spread over the rest of Interior. It's like dawn breaking on a mass grave where the falsely-presumed-dead are squirming their way out between the accurately-presumed-dead. --Ian Paul Roger Nelson, Friendship Bracelet

MP3: Angels in America: "Follow Me Out"

Narrow Road To The Interior is available for free download and for purchase on vinyl LP and CD on Ehse Records. More AIA material is available for free download from the Free Music Archive including a live WFMU set from last month