16. Oranssi Pazuzu - "Muuntautuja"

We have very much over quota this year with our oddities. This is yet another distinctly strange album that plays with musical structure and defined concepts. It is utterly enthralling and hypnotically seductive. It is quite hard to discern what it is doing because it tries to do everything. It is a melting pot of competing sounds and rhythmic endeavours that interlace together to become a simultaneously nightmarish but also adulatory whole.

This is the non-linear soundtrack to a discombobulated bad dream. It operates in an off kilter universe where nothing exists in an orderly fashion. There is no such thing as sequence or structure. Instead notes and melodic implants float by and then disappear into the ether. To call what we have here a collection of songs is to playing fast and loose with the whole definition of a song. They are loose collections of sonic reverberations which sometimes align, and other times operate fiercely independent. But whatever it is, is absorbing and fascinating. A wild ride into the unknown that reveals more and more on each listen.