Lundin Oil (Anthony Linell) – Exploit Divisions

Label: Northern Electronics – NE104
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Sweden
Released: Sep 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Noise

Anthony Linell's Lundin Oil project suggests a politic and an aesthetic in one swift movement. We may make certain deductions about each, but we must work backwards from where they meet.

Through the brutalising industrial mechanisms to which titles cryptically allude, we are given an exponentially urgent image of devastation. This is projected, pitch-perfectly, into a rapacious and erosive aural demonstration that barely meet metrical demands.

Exploit Divisions, the first Lundin Oil release since 2016, redoubles this threatening realisation. The album pivots between seismic static waves and jagged rhythmic noise, seeking a wider vantage with melodic drone ensembles. A ferocious departure from his primary work, Exploit Divisions is a purposeful reminder of the savagery of brevity.

A1. Black Banners
A2. Unpaid Moral Debts
A3. Schengen Burning
B1. High-Profile Witnesses
B2. Melting Skin
B3. Exploit Divisions
B4. Final Notice