press
the texts are redacted from the original reviews (highlighted in white)boomkat
‘Black slowly and pointedly introduces his hypnotic tones, as if he's pulling out stops on an immense pipe organ, and by the time we've hit the five minute mark, the original recording is a distant memory.’
musique-machine
‘it is a reversal of some intelligence and subtle cunning to highlight the nature of sound masking in a musical context as blackbody_radiation (aka Andrew Black) does on his first release under the moniker, Ultra-Materials, by essentially removing the context and leveling background and foreground into an even plane of ambient textures.’
juno
‘chakra-centring drones ('Soft Fascination', 'Silica') and tinny bells ('Ferric Oxide', 'Particle Float'), make for a beautiful album grounded in materialism.’
hhv mag
‘six minimalist, sensitive drones can be heard on it, ranging from experiments in spatial acoustics ("Particle Float") to meditative passages resembling almost binaural beats to rather unsettling soundscapes that could easily fit into a David Lynch film ("Soft Fascination").’
groove
‘added to this is the use of room feedback and other electroacoustic subtleties. It sounds complicated, but the result is astonishingly simple and logical: highly subtle almost-drones as almost-ambience.’