Review:

on 2010-08-09 DaddyTank Said:

Pang  Garden of Menace (Daddy Tank Records)

The first release on Daddy Tank Records is the mighty Pang with Garden of Menace. This amazing album has been floating around on the internet for free for a couple of years ( http://enoughrecords.scene.org/ ), and while those people who have been lucky enough to stumble across it are inevitably won over by its labyrinthine obsidian splendour, the numbers of people who have heard this album remain unacceptably low. Existing simultaneously in the genres of dark ambient, glitch and electronica, Garden of Menace is structurally perfect. Each individual track is endlessly fascinating, whether it is the eerie emptiness of Hollows or the post-apocalyptic Dead Monism, but the album itself is also a mind expanding and intellectually intoxicating masterpiece from beginning to end. The closest comparisons that can be made would be to Arovane, Bola and Autechre but ultimately Garden of Menace sounds only like Garden of Menace. If you like challenging, intellectual and avant garde electronic music this is a must have.

The album comes in a limited run of 200 copies, each copy will come with Pang artcard and Daddy Tank Records sticker. The first 10 copies sold will also come with a mysterious free promo item.

Rating: 10/10