Tag: Petruccio

The sounds of a pursuit in a cybernetic alien landscape is what emerges out of the sounds of strings/robotic sinews being stretched at the beginning of Petruccio’s “Lektr.” An urgent, dramatic melody cycles through while percussive sounds and flowing textures bubble along with pulses of distorted sound. The melody gives way to harmonic arpeggios that loop frantically at headlong pace toward a seemingly unknown destination but trusting that the path ahead won’t give out. The sound palette of the song evolves as it goes and in the last roughly third of the song all melody seems burned out and echoing metallic, scraping tones in a tunnel take its place yet the sense of motion persists though an unmistakably close up, almost claustrophobic feeling accompanies these noises that become a constant wail of squealing metal kicking up sparks of sound until the sudden end. We’ve been on a ride through harrowing spaces in the song in an place perilous and strange but you kind of want to get back on for that ride again. Listen to “Lektr” on Spotify and follow Petruccio on Bandcamp where you can listen to the rest of the Electrocephaliya album which released on October 10, 2023.