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Sissy Spacek - Geometric Reason (2026)
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Geometric Reason is the new Sissy Spacek album released on SSSM (the legendary label headed by Contagious Orgasm) featuring Sissy Spacek in a somewhat bigger band line up which headed by John Wiese and Charlie Mumma also features Mitchell Brown (Gasp, LAFMS), Aaron Hemphill (Nonpareils, Liars), and Jay Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed). Released on CD in a cardboard sleeve featuring signature immersive and abstract artwork by John Wiese and containing three long-form pieces Geometric Reason finds Sissy Spacek moving in exciting new territories of musique concrète and Noise. Not to be missed!
Track by track analysis
01 Glory, Splendor, Wealth, Rank
Glory, Splendor, Wealth Rank kicks off with a mysterious thriller like ambience made out of synth drone, glassy resonances and various swirling distorted effects. Electric buzzing and various mechanical sounds soon enter the scene as well. Eventually barrages of garbled screechy metal object noise swirl around the stereo image. Eerie time stretched voice samples add a great new layer of sonic mystery I didn't yet hear in Sissy Spacek so far. The piece feels both mysterious and also quite psychedelic in a way. It's not full on harsh but rather brooding musique concrète of the most immersive kind. An intriguing aspect of this piece is the lovely contrast between the aforementioned metallic textures with gritty distorted scratches and warm low end hum, a rich sonic tapestry is slowly being unfolded within this piece, captivating with every second. Eventually improvised distorted and saturated drums enter the scene for a moment adding some great variation to the already rich composition of textures within this piece. The piece of this piece is also rather laid-back, letting layers play out slowly rather than quickly cutting between sounds in an intense manner. Ghostly and eerie metallic drones eventually enter the image near the end of the piece forming somewhat of a melodic and highly intriguing nocturnal ambience. Something is lurking in the distance, nothing is sure now, unpredictable events might happen. Indeed soon we seem to get enveloped in the belly of an industrial monster that is grabbing us with its steel ladder arms.
02 Another Place
Another Place starts off in somewhat similar territory to Glory, Splendor, Wealth, Rank with the familiar drone based dark ambience returning but the ghostly swirls are back more intensely in this piece and right off the bat the piece sounds even more Dark Ambient like. There's a great density to the effect these sounds have on the mind, gripping your thoughts, massaging your ears with crackling, piercing noises and flying around your head like a cloud of made up memories. The manner in which especially the rhythmic tumbling textures are created is superb, there's a lot of movement in them and a great tactile quality to the sounds themselves. Soon however more piercing sounds enter, really drilling into your brain, in a good way though. With louder climaxes Another Place takes up the dynamics a notch and is more hard hitting, forming a great second chapter of this album. Additionally this piece also features more fluid, morphing like metallic textures, like shapeshifting molten metal scrunching around the stereo image. Eerie bleeps and tones furthermore shape the piece into an alien kind of sonic tapestry which is soon interrupted by loud bangs of noise and intense bell like ringing. Metallic resonances are further utilised very well in the finale of this piece with some lovely shifting vibrations with subtle distortion being used fading in and out after which harsher streams of sound erupt. Once again, plenty of movement in this piece and the final seconds have lovely Dark Ambient edge to them.
03 Frozen Extent
Frozen Extent picks up from the finale from Another Place in a way with its intensely piercing metallic textures and the now familiar eerie voice samples now being cranked up more into wildly strange manners. I now even seemed to notice what sounded like violin entering the mixture which is swirling into a whirlwind of awesome abstraction. Frozen Extent also actually feels more mechanical in a sense with more machinery like noises entering the scene soon enough and as manipulated as these textures are, many of them are grounded in real machinery sounds but just more alien sounding. The tonal elements in the piece have an almost jazzy free-flowing vibe to them but the noise bursts still cut through hard enough for the piece never to feel simply idle. The straight up Noise sections are also very well done featuring enough movement and inspired panning to sound fresh every time you listen to this album. Nothing is predictable or repetitive as the vibrant unit that Sissy Spacek is keeps moving forward, second by second. Just look out for that sudden Industrial Noisecore section that pops up suddenly, no vocals but the pummelling drums hit hard into the Industrial ambience, lovely. I love the FM / ring modulated manipulations too. Wild pitch and glitch manipulations enter the setting too, adding a different approach to the piece which features exciting in its sonic and high tempo rhythmic qualities. Drones finally seem to play strange eerie chords, perhaps matching a strange old thriller film which has since been degraded by time.
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