Neuter River

Neuter River is a new project from Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars, one which concerns itself with the more experimental, far-out sounds within the producer's repertoire. The label describes the LP thusly: "Neuter River is not exactly a band or a person, it's the remains of an idea, a shifting light cube at the end of a ragged kaleidoscope. Atonal precission / pentatonic noise." Quite what that means will be unclear even after you've heard the record, but then it's the extremity of the abstract sound-sculpting at work here that makes the record as engrossing as it is. It's fairly heavy-going, fragmented material that's partly rooted in the vintage murkiness of classic electronics but it's equally connected to the more contemporary sounds of the glitch movement. Good stuff, and highly limited too - just 300 copies in circulation.