Information Pollution

180gm vinyl LP pressing. Like some ingenious combination of John Cage's chance operations and the numbers station data stream captured on The Conet Project, Strategy's new album immerses listeners in baffling sonic waters. It's a riveting work that converts the enigmatic effluvia of shortwave and dispatch radio chatter into thrumming, static-riddled clouds of ambience. An undercurrent of unease wafts through Information Pollution's four lengthy tracks, as barely audible molecules of aural junk never meant for public consumption get repurposed into an unsettling strain of inverted chillout music. With this album Strategy has shaped the random output of radios into a gripping document. As Dickow puts it, "This is the audio equivalent of photographing the oil slicks that appear in the puddles of parking lots."