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With ‘Viewers’, Thomas Ragsdale’s Sulk Rooms moniker maps a journey through a sinking city landscape riddled with themes of desolate paranoia, surveillance and skin-crawling atmospherics.

The concept of screens, lenses and our eyes being observational ‘Viewers’ invites us to peer into the album’s foreboding and airless sound environment giving an elevated sense of weightlessness and disorientation.

‘Viewers’ is designed to take you through a network of rooms and passages filled with drones, smoke and strobes soundtracked by the savage resonating dub techno chords in ‘Televisions’, which rip and tear like teeth, and to escape from the hiss and hum occupied gloominess of ‘The Thin Man’.

However, it’s not all starkness and existential doom and there are a few glimmers of hope and optimism. In ‘Transmissions’ the lean-over-the-edge countdown is weighted firmly by a barely-there glowering melody eventually succumbing to the grieving ambience of ‘Empty Theatre’, which aches and cries out with resilient spirit. It’s finally a moment to catch your breath, but the red velvet stage curtains suddenly close and the only thing left is the loneliest of alarms.

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1. Televisions 05:44
2. Mycorrizhal 10:35
3. The Thin Man 05:43
4. Transmissions 05:31
5. Empty Theatre 07:29