The rather obscure second album of Arum Lilies, a brainchild of Mark Groves (Dead Boomers, Von Einem etc.), provides vaguely unsettling, eerily obscure experimental electronics. Harrowing, subtle atmospherics clash with moments of eardrum shattering industrial noise; warbling pseudomelodies are offset by crackling static and piercing feedback; ominous vocal samples are layered on passages of tightly controlled minimalism.

The music on "Subsurface Aquifers" migrates between poles; from an almost ambient sparsity of expression to exuberant bursts of chaos. This is not an album of shallow industrial nihilism or typical power electronics misanthropy. It does not allow itself to be defined so easily. As such, it demands more from the listener - but also offers more.

Mastered by Grant Richardson (Gnawed). Ltd x 120 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.