Dark Pool

'Dark Pool' is the new studio album from Black Rain, the project's first in 18 years. Produced in New York City by Stuart Argabright, Black Rain's founder and figurehead and Ike Yard co-founder, 'Dark Pool' is a work of hard-edged sonic fiction rooted in cyberpunk's quintessential neo-noir cityscape / dataspace but projecting into a farther future of biotechnological advancement and alienation. Partly inspired by the writings of Philip K. Dick protege K.W. Jeter (particularly 1996's 'Edge Of Huma'n, which picked up where Ridley Scott's Blade Runner left off), and Paolo Bacigalupi's 2009 novel 'The Windup Girl', a vision of 23rd century Thailand plagued by genetic and economic terrorism, 'Dark Pool's' humid dystopia is also acutely Ballardian in its vision of manmade and natural worlds encroaching upon each other: a vivid psychogeography of half-submerged high-rises and hidden jungle laboratories. For all its textual references, Dark Pool is a visceral and straight-talking affair: its bodyhammer rhythms and brooding sound design require no explanation for their impact to be felt.LP - With Download.