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Holy Other (Manchester-based producer David Ainley)
joined "witch house" movement with the single
We Over (Transparent, 2010), a translucent wordless chant
of interlocking vocals and pulsating electronic beats,
and with the five-song EP With U (Tri Angle, 2011).
The slow cold trance of Yr Love and the robotic limping dance of
Feel Something are magic inventions. There are also two attempts
at the ballad: Touch is as straighforward as witch house can get to it,
while With U carves the ballad out of an obsessive minimalist loop
and never fully delivers it.
The full-lenght album Held (Tri Angle, 2012) contains a few more
magic tricks of vocals and electronics, notably
(W)here and, to a lesser extent, U Now.
It also sails in cosmic journeys that border on spiritual new-age music,
such as Tense Past (with a rousing Pink Floyd-ian coda) and
especially the closing Nothing Here, whose pace and harmonies are
solemn like in a requiem.
One wishes Ainley had invested more in
quasi-industrial vignettes like In Difference and less in the
six-minute cyclical anthem Held, which was probably meant to be
the centerpiece but instead fails to coalesce.
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