Various – The Electro Guilde IV

For the fourth release in the electro-acid V/A series ‘The Electro Guilde’, Zodiak Commune present a three-split 12″ from the combined forces of Johnfaustus, Akkaelle and AXIS3340, with a doombound selection of ominous tunes in the style. ‘Deimos’ and ‘Dione’ are Johnfaustus’ opening odysseys and the latter especially blindsides us with its strained synth strings and trepidatiously tuned sixteenths. B-sider ‘The Plants Move’ is pitiless by comparison, annihilating everything in its path with bodying impacts and piquant pluck-slips; ‘Ashes’, on the close, incorporates guttural, stretchy sound design below a skeletal, atrial mix over and above.