Black Light Spiral

Black Light Spiral is the debut album from Jack Dunning, aka Untold, released on his own label Hemlock records.

Black Light Spiral
Studio album by
Untold
ReleasedFebruary 2014
LabelHemlock Records

Composition

Black Light Spiral is an unconventional record compositionally focused more on harsh horror atmospheres than consistent dance rhythms, summarized Larry Fitzmaurice: "the rhythms are wrapped in spikes, the melodies are built out of transistor-radio noise and abused vocal samples, and the empty space surrounding everything possesses a seasick unsteadiness."[1] Crack Magazine described the entire LP as "one amorphous blur of mescaline loops and decayed rhythms, held together by the restless ghost of the UK's illustrious rave past."[1]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Crack Magazine18/20[2]
Fact4/5[3]
Pitchfork7.6/10[1]
Resident Advisor4/5[4]
Spin9/10[5]
XLR8R8/10[6]

Crack Magazine praised Black Light Spiral for continuing Untold's "alchemic ability to distill storied influences into something that sounds like nothing you've ever heard before is still unparalleled."[2] On the other hand, Fitzmaurice, while appreciating it as "a beguiling artistic statement of an album in a genre where finding success in the LP format isn't always a given," felt its abstractness may turn off fans of previous Untold material that had more "directly engaging qualities."[1] Resident Advisor reviewer Andrew Ryce concluded that "the best aspect of the album is also the worst: it's alienating in way that might actually alienate you, and keep you from revisiting."[4]

Track listing
  1. 5 Wheels
  2. Drop It On the One
  3. Sing a Love Song
  4. Doubles
  5. Wet Wool
  6. Strange Dreams
  7. Hobthrust
  8. Ion
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gollark: Specifically, 22 bytes for the private key and 21 for the public key on ccecc.py and 25 and 32 on the actual ingame one.
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gollark: > 2. precompilation to lua bytecode and compressionThis was considered, but the furthest I went was having some programs compressed on disk.
gollark: > 1. multiple layers of sandboxing (a "system" layer that implements a few things, a "features" layer that implements most of potatOS's inter-sandboxing API and some features, a "process manager" layer which has inter-process separation and ways for processes to communicate, and a "BIOS" layer that implements features like PotatoBIOS)Seems impractical, although it probably *could* fix a lot of problems

References
  1. Fitzmaurice, Larry (20 February 2014). "Untold: Black Light Spiral". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  2. "Albums". Crack Magazine. 6 March 2014. p. 55. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. Finlayson, Angus (20 February 2014). "Black Light Spiral". Fact. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  4. Ryce, Andrew (7 March 2014). "Untold – Black Light Spiral". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  5. Sherburne, Philip (14 February 2014). "Untold's Deathly Drops, Optimo's Spacey Blues, and 10 More New Dance LP's in Control Voltage". Spin. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. Jackson, Glenn (25 February 2014). "Black Light Spiral". XLR8R. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2014.


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