Lutto Lento - LEGENDO (2021)

Odd one this, in the best possible way: a brilliantly atmospheric, rhythm-heavy fusion of industrial wyrdness and RPG dance music. Think Coil remixed by the Bokeh Versions crew.

Polish producer Lutto Lento fashions his own sonic landscape here, chiseling out a jagged sound from a rich mine of industrial and post-club touchstones. At times, it sounds like haunted Eastern European folk music (complete with creaky doors and waterlogged field recordings), while at others you're dragged into a club basement with stuttering kicks and trapdoor crashes. It's like a bizarre meeting point between the Miasmah catalogue and NAAFI or SVBKVLT.

'Angels' sounds like dungeon synth with John Glacier's deadpan words on top - a noise dub experiment that's too unclassifiable for words, while the almost ten minute centerpiece, 'Horned Heart', drags us through elegiac plucked strings and beach scenes before erupting into gloomy lo-fi dub, witch house and fairground trap. Bit like playing an open-world RPG.