KRENG - Wormhole

"Pepijn Caudron , aka Kreng , transports you through the swirling darkness and into the unknown with Wormhole , his first album in over a decade. What does a trip towards another world sound like? The master of tension, melancholy, and the deranged is back after a long period working in the worlds of theatre and cinema. Last seen on Miasmah with the grief stricken The Summoner , Kreng now returns with Wormhole , following closer in the footsteps of the cult classics L'Autopsie Phénoménale de Dieu (2009) and Grimoire (2011). Starting with "You Are Here", the listener travels through a vacuum of spacious minimalism and edge-of-your-seat tension. Within the journey, we are pulled and lured towards a mystic inner core and beyond, encountering drifting fragments of old-world nostalgia on the way: echoes of empty jazz bars sit alongside hellish, Hieronymus Bosch -like scenarios. Surrendering to the album reveals a surprisingly reflective beauty beneath its darkness; it's a true home-listening gem that unfolds like a Lovecraf tian cosmic horror-mystery in the way only Kreng could deliver. Forget everything you know and enter the secret door... Gatefold sleeve; includes download code; edition of 500."