CRT’s previous album “Exodus Partners” chronicled a dark period of his life where he’d lost almost everything. With that album CRT charts a fall and rise, decline and resurgence. LIfe Among The Rust reels back his frequent use of dub echo techniques and heavy distortion for a cleaner, rawer approach that yields surprising results. Piano figures heavily into the palette of Life Among The Rust in such tracks as ‘Lush Life’ and ‘Open Apparatus.’ There’s an overall positive vibe to it, a hopefulness not often heard in the melancholic works of CRT’s past efforts. ‘Abundance’ soars with choral vocals while ‘The Unusual Symmetry’ begins darkly but ends with a bright, chaotic glitchy jam.
But where does the rust come in? And the life that lives among it? In changing the approach and working through these ideas CRT has created something new from the old, removing rust so something else could shine through.
From rust comes rebirth and from rebirth comes new life.
LIfe Among The Rust (COM250) is out now on COMPONENT RECORDINGS
