Glim – Aerial View of Model

Picking up where the acclaimed „Music for Field Recordings“ left
off, Glim‘s second album is an equally refined and somewhat
more overt survey of musical structure. Imagine chilly pop
designs stripped of their content and becoming elaborate explorations
of post-production detail—the scaffolding without the
ediface. „Aerial view of model“ creates a pattern of high
frequency jitters and glitch-scrape. The new release from GLIM
(aka Andreas Berger) is a bit of a departure from his first album
of ambient song experiments, Music for Field Recordings. Unlike
that aforementioned album, Aerial View of Model does not so
much dabble in complete dadaism but contains more cohesive,
composed atmospheres that still manage to sprawl across the
listener in an unpredictable manner. The „songs“ have actually
become Songs, but with the instrumentation of a broken clock‘s
insides, some backward tape use, and the guttings of a laptop.
The melodies found within the seemingly dense, yet surprisingly
sparse-sounding landscapes are heartbreaking. Getting inside
these songs is like the process of getting untangled in a web of
cotton candy and iron shavings: it may be very strange and
difficult at first, but it‘s like realizing that by eating your way out
you may be able to enjoy the act even if you end up digesting iron
shavings. In the end, it‘s all worth it. Andreas Berger also moonlights
in Le Charmant Rouge, Contour, and Mimi Secue.