Loud As Giants Empty Homes vinyl is the LP from Consouling Sounds documenting the collaboration between Dirk Serries and Justin K. Broadrick, two figures whose individual projects have shaped large portions of the ambient, drone, and industrial guitar landscape over the past three decades. The Consouling Sounds LP is the right physical format for what these two musicians built together.
Loud As Giants Empty Homes vinyl
Dirk Serries is the Belgian musician behind Vidna Obmana and Fear Falls Burning, a catalog of drone and ambient guitar work that spans decades and multiple recording configurations. Justin K. Broadrick built Godflesh and Jesu and contributed to more projects than most musicians complete in a lifetime, ranging from industrial metal to ambient and back without ever losing the specific weight that characterizes his work. Thirteen years after their previous collaboration as Fear Falls Burning and Final, Loud As Giants is the structure they built to work together again with fresh context and distance from the original partnership.
Empty Homes on Vinyl
Consouling Sounds is the Belgian label behind much of Amenra’s physical catalog, which tells you exactly what this label values and who they trust to release music at this level of seriousness. The LP format suits what Serries and Broadrick do together: the extended pieces need space to develop, and vinyl gives them that space without the compression that digital formats impose on music built around dynamic range and sustained texture. Empty Homes is the kind of record where the physical format is not incidental to the experience of the music.
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If you follow either Dirk Serries or Justin K. Broadrick seriously, Loud As Giants is not a side project you can treat as optional. It is a genuine collaboration between two musicians who work in overlapping territory from different angles and backgrounds, and the results on Empty Homes are what you would hope from that combination. The Consouling Sounds LP is the proper way to own this record, and the label’s commitment to physical presentation means the object itself reflects the seriousness of the music inside.
The Consouling Sounds LP edition of Empty Homes is not widely distributed, which is consistent with the label’s approach to releasing music that matters to a specific audience rather than trying to reach the broadest possible one. For listeners who follow both Dirk Serries and Justin K. Broadrick across their various projects, this collaboration is essential rather than optional, and the LP is the format that serves it best.
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