Viscous Solid

Aeroc | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ghostly Int'l
• ASIN: B000228E7M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #566,551 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Love, The Wave Break

2. Evolvo

3. Mahy

4. Bronze Leaves Fall First

5. Wish Eyes

6. Rockets Can't Get the Stars

7. Vio La

8. Enter

9. Rusted Dress Up

10. Onward... Upward

11. Blue Eyed Bitter

12. Another Mere Moment

13. Please Go Wrong

14. And Then .. ..

15. Summers Almost Over

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Massive, September 21, 2004

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alexander laurence (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viscous Solid (Audio CD)

This is a rather ambient affair. It is very abstract. Maybe more like some of Plaid's and Autechre's more non commercial things. A lot of spooky sounds for an hour. Maybe more like soundtrack music. It is relaxing. It's shocking to hear some guitar on "Blue Eyed Bitter." It is post-industrial, post-hiphop, and post-techno. Probably what the characters in the film Minority Report listen to. After listening to something mentally bankrupt like Royal City. this record is wonderful.

4.0 out of 5 stars Aeroc - Viscous Solid, February 24, 2011

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scoundrel - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viscous Solid (Audio CD)

Geoff White adopts the moniker Aeroc for his first release on Ghostly International, VISCOUS SOLID. And while the title may be an oxymoron, White manages to blend glitchy IDM with acoustic guitar work into an organic whole, with the earthy balancing the technology. The first track, "My Love, The Wave Break" (a reference to Octavio Paz's famous short story) sets the bucolic tone that the rest of the album will follow. "Mahy" brings a fragile delicacy to the guitar work that's underwritten by the clicks and whirs. Other more ambient tracks eschew the guitar (or reduce them to processed plucks, like on "Rockets Can't Get the Stars" or "Enter"), but retain a moody tonal quality reminiscent of Biosphere's work. "Onward... Upward," however, sounds like a folk-rock song that's had its percussion mugged by a mainframe, while "Please Go Wrong" is a hymn played through a malfunctioning Speak-N-Spell. "Summer's Almost Over" returns us to the beginning, where guitar and computer merged into one being.