Joshua Norton Cabal - noise duo existing for quite some time already. Years ago I had a chance to listen to some records of this project, but now I'll have to reevaluate my acquaintance once again. Inner Light - disc with 5 tracks and playing time of almost 40 minutes. I wouldn't say I was fascinated by it. There are truly decent places in the album, but the bigger part of these appear when the disc is moving towards the end. The beginning is weak. Repeatedly touched strings of guitar and slowly joining other layers of sound - feedbacks, sterile noise, weird sounds, generated by synth or something like that and so on. Huge amounts of delay and irritating glitchy elements. All in all the first track sounds like the big pile of random, not very pleasant sounds. The beginning of the second track is stronger - more middle frequencies, but the sounds is still powerless. Feedbacks are weak and suppressed and the sound itself is somehow deadened. Finally the reason for all this becomes clear - there are less and less noise elements in the track, it gets more and more silent and ends in hardly audible crackling. Still nothing very exciting about the disc. It seems that in case there would be different mastering for this release, it would become much more enjoyable and would get into absolutely different mood and now it sounds like cheap messing around with sounds and that's it. The fourth track is better until it deviates towards weird jerking and wandering in sounds, leaning to absolute silence... But this track is better and more energetic and overall it sounds quite nicely. The last in the album - "Shattered hand" is the best one. Aggressive noise, placed in the whole spectrum of frequencies, rather active, varying, far from boring and so on. At least in the perspective of this album, this is a truly good one Everything else - not for me. Perhaps the disc is quite interesting if we say that it's some sort of jam and playing around with various pedals and equipment. Otherwise I'd mention only the last track. Authors state that mostly field recordings are used in the last track nad thus it's different from the whole album. Absolutely not for my taste.

Format: CD
Released: 2010
Label: Chimera Records