This album of Swedish composer Jarl is the second part of Vertigo trilogy, released in Autarkeia label. A little more than an hour of music in golden CD continues good traditions of Jarl's creations not only since the first part of trilogy, but of all latter years. He manages to draw listener to unpleasant, paranoid, heavy and suffocating space. If earlier releases of Jarl suppressed and pulled you down, they were doing it furiously though somewhat subtly. There are places in albums where you feel something similar to catharsis - oddish relief after wading through mirages of droney swamps. In this album I cannot find such place. Similar feeling was while listening to the first part of the trilogy - Vertigo Emission though it was slightly lighter and easier comparing to the second one. While listening to this release, absolute emptiness is felt. The album is rich soundwise. Droney hands slowly embracing you and strangling more and more, hot breath of bass guitar, elements of rhythm storming in an attack of asthma. All that is here. But such an eerie and suggestive atmosphere is created from these sound elements that while listening to Vertigo Border you start to feel like an empty shell to which Jarl spills his heady poison of sounds. You cannot hook on anything in this album, in this music. You are just left under the monolithic mass of sounds ant that's it. No, it does not put you to sleep, but it doesn't offer a hand too. A feeling reminds me of those moments when I almost drowned some years ago. At first you submerge under water, then start to flounce, trying to escape the water while finally realise that it's meaningless and after you accept your faith with resignation, the body starts to relax. Only water all around you. You are foreign body in here and it is victorious over you. You are foreign body in the sounds of this album too and Jarl is victorious. Calmly and achelessly he shows you your helplessness. In fact it's rather difficult to listen to this album for more than a couple of times in a row. If you listen to it more, you start to feel how seeds of dismay and paranoia, sown by Jarl starts to germinate. Vertigo Border seems to me the strongest album not only of those two parts of the trilogy I've heard already, but of all the works by Jarl that I had a chance to listen to. Packed as always in high quality nice digipack. I recommend this album to those who is interested in visions of Jarl. Laying under monotonous units of vertigoes, embracing your suffocating vision of the world.

Format: CD
Released: 2010
Label: Autarkeia
Edition: 200