"You
Are My All" and More is Tony Youngs debut album as Autoclav 1.1 and
follows 2 CD EPs released earlier in 2005. Recorded during a period of
deep personal emotion at the loss of his beloved cat Frank, the album
reflects a state of mind and expresses a range of emotions from melancholy
reflection to anger and frustration.
The album opens with the gentle resonance, relaxed beat and melancholy
piano musings of 'Headspatial' but soon gives way to the droning
ambience and torrent of metallic aggression that is 'This is the Hollow
Point'. 'White Cover' maintains the manic energy levels
with a flood of huge crashing industrial beats while 'Meet Me Halfway'
eases off the beats slightly adding a soothing choral backing and some
sweeping ambient texture. Keeping up the post-industrial glitch noise
theme is 'Tomorrow It Rains' with its frenzy of slightly abstract
pounding beats and swathes of sweeping texture. Punctuating these tracks
are 'Letter from Miki City' and 'Tell Me When to Care';
tracks that further emphasise the atmospheric textures and moods that
Young is equally capable to creating. Sitting somewhere in between the
two extremes is 'The Same Hole as Yesterday' which has a prominent
drone fighting for dominance with insistent and addictive rhythmic beats.
Particularly poignant is the gently emotive of 'August Sunday Afternoon'.
Young's collaboration with JEYE - 'When to Care' - closes the
album with a slightly abstract rhythmic excursion into the darkside.
Also included on the album are five bonus remixes of various tracks by
Pneumatic Detach, Slacknote, Iszoloscope, Eva/3 and Noise/Girl. Pneumatic
Detach submit a strong remix of 'White Cover' with aggressive
rhythmic beats, just the right amount of distortion and desolate industrial
effects while Iszoloscope's rehash of the same track is a punishing distorted
stop-start affair. Slacknote's 'Meet Me Half Way' remix is slightly
erratic and random with shifting beat patterns while Noise/Girl's rework
of the same track is obscured by excessive amounts of circuit bending
noise. The Eva/3 remix of 'Tell Me When to Care' is an aggressive
heavily distorted beat onslaught that obscures the drone-based flow of
the original.
Young's music has two sides; the powerful, aggressive dominant side that
is initially the most noticeable in his music and another less obvious
side, that of a more subtle moody ambient musician. The subtle side is
often obscured by the forcefulness of the aggressive side but it is this
dominant side that Young is often the most competent in, producing ferocious
grinding rhythmic noise with an experimental edge.
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