ninehertz

We were sent this on the back of our Neptunian Maximalism review of late - FIN, a solo act from Monterrey, Mexico, being a fan of and inspired by the Belgium experimentalist masters read it and reached out. This is their latest, from late February, a single track nineteen minutes long, a drone rock avant garde epic.

It sets the scene early on spectacularly - awash with sparkling gemstones of noise and glimmering instrumentation, it is an alluring intro for such a dense, long proposition. Stuttering, glitching electronics follow to slightly dehumanise it, here it feels as much Aphex Twin as it does, say, Earth. Nearly four minutes in vocals arrive and the semblance of a standard song structure, most unexpectedly, pianos and guitars and drums, all quite minimal but a galaxy away from its abstract beginning. Its proggy, go-anywhere approach reminds me a touch of Colorado's Dreadnought by this point, in its freedom to roam nature if not explicitly in sound.

It trundles along a little too long in the middle, losing its way a touch, although the backing audio effects are constantly cosmically intriguing. You're pulled in on its next phase which has this unreal hybrid sense of both space rock and Goat-esque world music as it ventures into the track's second half, before ending back with similar twinkling stars of the beginning.

This is worth your time, there is so much to unpack, clear elements of diverse genres and sounds flowing into each other, the whole cleverly constructed but feeling oddly natural and with heart on show. It may be a daunting track to entertain, but there's reward in finding the time and absorbing what FIN have created.