Clark's Turning Dragon is the sort of ear-puncturing blast of four-on-the-floor electronica that negates headphones, seated listening, resting heart rates, and neighborly civility.
Flipping that old Nick Drake adage, even when played quietly, the record just sounds loud.
This isn't to say the record isn't scattered with moments of cloud-parting beauty, but even a track like "Mercy Sines," which appropriately begins and ends with merciful chiming sine waves, eventually ruptures into static-drenched discord and melody-free bass slams.
Clark keeps his contemporary Justice's aggressive hyper-compression but shirks that duo's over-arching sense of melody -- there is no "D.A.N.C.E." here, nor anything that might lead to genuine dancing.
Which sort of pinpoints the problem: wedged between house and IDM, as Turning Dragon so craftily is, the record's precise application remains sort of impossible to pinpoint, at once too cerebral to be much fun and too manic to reward close listening.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Year StormClark | Clark | Play | 04:05 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 2 | Volcan VeinsClark | Clark | Play | 04:05 | 9 MB | 31 MB |
| 3 | Truncation HornClark | Clark | Play | 02:19 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 4 | For Wolves CrewClark | Clark | Play | 06:59 | 16 MB | 48 MB |
| 5 | ViolenlClark | Clark | Play | 03:42 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 6 | Ache of the NorthClark | Clark | Play | 05:09 | 11 MB | 35 MB |
| 7 | Mercy SinesClark | Clark | Play | 03:19 | 7 MB | 25 MB |
| 8 | Hot May SlidesClark | Clark | Play | 02:50 | 6 MB | 17 MB |
| 9 | BegClark | Clark | Play | 04:13 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 10 | Penultimate PersianClark | Clark | Play | 05:01 | 11 MB | 35 MB |
| 11 | Gaskarth-Cyrk Dedication | Clark | Play | 04:53 | 11 MB | 35 MB |
| 46 mins | 106 MB | |||||
| 46 mins | 333 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clark | Composer, Primary Artist |
| 2 | Christopher Clark | Audio Engineer, Audio Production, Member of Attributed Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |