This album is part of the Con-Struct series of albums where a variety of artists are granted access to Conrad Schnitzler's library of unused music and asked to use them to create new pieces with, So that although Conrad died in 2011 he is still putting out new music.
This time Baal & Mortimer are the lucky ones let loose in the archives to then con-struct something.
The album opens with Mohn that has juddery synth and percussion noises and quite disorienting female vocals that seem to emerge from the murk as eventually do the organ and pipe sounds.
Keystone has almost Gregorian chant style vocals with minimal synths beneath them, and it ends up being rather beautiful and elegiac.
Blue Lotus is a spoke word piece with odd sound effects with whip crack synth noises as the keyboards slowly come to the fore.
Veins + Corals has almost gamelan style percussion and tonal synth washes for the deadpan vocals to intone ponderously over the top engendering a feeling of dis-connectedness.
FFAALL is reminiscent of Desert Shore era Nico, but with Gregorian chant style vocals and other weird noises and strings scraping at your brain slowly enveloping you in the majesty and mystery within this tune.
Lo has a feel of medieval processional sounds, with glistening synths and almost hammer on anvil style industrial percussion, it's unsettling and engaging in equal measure. Before the poetic vocals confound the listener.
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This Last Duress has downbeat strings with clattering background percussion that has a march like feel as the vocals finally describe what This Last Duress really is.
The album closes with Coat that has choral vocals that weave in and out of the synth backing, that has long tones and weird noises coming off from it so that it's more like a coat from Desigual than a Crombie.
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