William Fowler Collins — Perdition Hill Radio (TYPE046)
- When
- Jun 2009
This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.
Boomkat, which stocked the label, still lists this record, filed under Dark Ambient / Drone / Metal.
From the desolate hills of Albuquerque, New Mexico comes self-styled black ambient overlord William Fowler Collins. Like Earth's seminal 'Hex' before it, 'Perdition Hill Radio', his second full-length, invokes the ghosts of a lost America and drags the rotting carcass of country music through a swamp of noise and drone. The chugging, blown out treble and isolated darkness of Xasthur is all present and correct, but there are also echoes of William Basinski and Deaf Center hidden amongst the clouds of radio static. Dark, doomy and with no escape from the pounding sun up above — 'Perdition Hill Radio' is a truly cinematic record.
Made at Type.
Earlier in the catalogue: Xela — In Bocca Al Lupo TYPE043. Later in the catalogue: Mokira — Persona TYPE047.