Indiana-based electronic producer Freeze Etch (Adam Duckworth, 24) has been releasing music since 2002. The FE sound has been described as being “equal parts ambient, drone, minimalist, IDM and bits of industrial all together,” incorporating rich melodic influence and brooding elemental qualities amidst driving industrial rhythms and textures. His label debut came with 2003’s Helios EP, appearing on Dave Dando-Moore’s (Detritus) now-defunct Immanence Records. Now, over four years in the making and clocking in at just over an hour — Vessels, the first proper full-length Freeze Etch album, is a dynamic excursion into a world of thick organic rhythms, striking melodic textures, and surging ambient momentum. By turns sparkling and pristine and by others ugly and smoldering, Vessels explores the brooding tensions between dynamically opposed auras, employing textures which are at once terrestrial and alien, as well as melodic structures which merge skilled composition with the ambiguous flood of drone. Featuring artwork by Eric Carl and mastering by Josh Colella (Scrap.edx). Released on Force Of Nature and available March 15th, 2008.

1) Another Moving Vessel 2) Deadly 3) Aneurysms 4) Soarover 5) Extraneous 6) Boundward 7) Vehicularism 8) The Standstill 9) Freight Memory 10) Slight Rite 11) Asunder