Hieroglyphic Being 'The Sound Of Something'

Eager to contrast his music to "a sea of disposable cookie-cutter music", sonic Chicago singularity Hieroglyphic Being is given a exalting debut on Mathematics with 'The Sound Of Something', providing an extra pharaoh's prayer after his most recent avant-garde self-release, 'An Era Of Spiritual Tenebrae'. A dozen dramas extend over what sound like alt-futuristic house tracks with pyramided spires lopped off the top; the sonic equivalent of sunk relief symbols in sandstone. Increasingly irreverent as it progresses, 'Track 9' and 'Track 7' can be marked out as the weirdo highlights, relishing artifactual mud, stodgy fidelity.