Systems Emerge from Complete Disorder

Album Review

There are few album titles more on-the-nose than the Flying Luttenbachers' Systems Emerge from Complete Disorder. Opening with the unreconstructed feedback-and-skronk guitar noise of "Entropic Field/Total Disorder/Cellular Chaos," the album builds organically, with each song building off of one or more elements from the song immediately preceding, culminating in the wild-eyed frenzy of the side-long "Rise of the Iridescent Behemoth." Recorded as a one-man-band solo project by leader Weasel Walter, Systems Emerge from Complete Disorder sounds like some kind of unholy marriage between Magma's aggressive, spiky '70s prog, the untrammeled anarchy of a European free improv set from the late '60s, and the pummeling aggression of modern-day Scandinavian death metal, a comparison particularly warranted by the three-part "Kkringg." As always, there's a concept explained in the liner notes of this entirely instrumental album, something to do with the Flying Luttenbachers' ongoing post-apocalyptic mythology, but even on its own, the music has an unearthly, disturbing strangeness.