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Wilt's latest effort As Giants Watch Over Us is a mature and reflective work, a carefully textured mesh of wandering deep inner space drones and intricately constructed lo-fi electronic noise convulsions and loops that combine with fantastic results.

Slow-moving hums and harmonic drones form the backbone of many pieces; scrappy, defective noises are snipped and pasted into well-timed moments, scratching and murmurring in permutating loops. And these sounds have such soul; they resonate and churn and convulse with delicate, conscious nuance. The timing is impeccable; the music is patiently structured to culimate into beautiful and penetrating moments, spending just the right amount of time in deliberation over each sonic space before moving on to new, fathomless places.

A black and white backdrop of writhing static and slow bending synthetic drones are illuminated sporadically by flashing, colored radiowave hiss (Empire of the Snake). A ensemble performs a chamber symphony of stereoized mis-parsed image blips from abandoned television sets, slowed vinyl scrapes and bell-like synthetics (Engineering Eternity). Bouncing low electronic loops and gentle pulses give way to spectacular ringing overtones and soft reverberant synth harmonies (Tangled in Briars).

As Giants Watch Over Us is a work that demands a listener's full attention . . . but in return offers nearly infinite rewards.

Fearless soundscapes of digitally-manipulated guitar, keyboard and vocal performances shaped into forlorn harmonies and framented gothic-industrial ballads, Extropy's Lathe leaves behind traditional song structures and forges it's own distinct voice, a poetic vision of mournful beauty.

Fragmented and exacting industrial beat patterns surround sparse, filtered vocals crooning introspective melodies. Digital synthetics and guitar noises spin and pan across the stereo field in meticulous flight plans, building into slow, deliberate patterns and songs.

In the organic way the pieces are gradually constructed, Lethe achieves a stream-of-consciousness effect which reminds me of later Skinny Puppy albums. But on top of that Extropy's music is infinitely more melodic and emotional; Lethe eminates a profound, somber ambience that holds all the pieces together.

Lethe is full of moments that leave you in utter awe, at the beauty of the layered and carefully manipulated sound, at the depth of the feeling that is infused into the music. In Lethe, Extropy has found a new, mysterious area of our consciousness to shade with their shifting, dim, multi-faceted moods.