Both artists on this split 10? offer up a single drone-sourced track, and it must be a cold day in hell because Gareth Hardwick gets pipped to the winner?s post here. Hardwick?s ?High Tension? is a 12 storey guitar-drone piece, the soft buzz of high tension electricity wires amplified to overwhelm the skies they cross. The layers fuzzed-up edges solidifying the record?s presence, adding the physical to the ethereal.

Taiga Remains (aka Alex Cobb) comes with a heavier Birchville vibe on their drone cut, ?Pantomime Bodies? a masked prayer of relentlessness with an unknown provenance. Deeper, and certainly more convoluted, than Hardwick?s ?High Tension?, this side runs over a cratered surface like a gallon of church-blessed glue. More immersive than almost everything else that Taiga Remains has done, the wrecked but still distinguishable elements are the engine behind ?Pantomime Bodies? success. 8/10 -- Scott McKeating (12 August, 2008)