The best way for me to review an album is to comment in real-time, and that's exactly how I went about this one. So, with out further ado, here's my review of:
Deconstruct
Any Given Day - At first i thought my speakers were frying, then some relief comes in with the ambient synth. A bit of some layering going on, and then it finally calms down to a peaceful drone. Back with the overdriven synth. I felt it was an unanswered question.
Abstruce - Nice opening with the off key synth hits. This has more of a feeling like it may go somewhere. Cool groove on that.
Overture - Good intro syncopation, and I'm now wondering if this will continue through the entire piece, which it does not. Some trippy hammond-like chords, and then it drops out.
Loner - Tubular bells to start this one off, with a monotized beat track leading the way through some overdriven, and not overdriven synths. The title, and feel do suggest an image of one walking around a city by themsleves. Then the triangle style soundfont comes in and it breaks it up a bit.
Periphrasis - Fun with delay. Some dissonant chords used in a way that conjures up some pretty frightening images.
Glimpse - Opens with a wind sound that remarkably keeps the beat, then fades. Interesting.
Alliterating - More delay fun. This is pretty cool. Kind of ends before it goes any where.
Not All There - Chimey goodness. This feels like a dream sequence with some revelations, then it just drops off.
Shortness Of Breath - A bit churchy, but nice. I feel like I'm on acid and Don Pardo is gonna pop out any second here. The Leslie effect on the hammond is nice though.
Pararhyme - Like sunlight through the trees on a light breezy day. Some really good synth work on this one. Possibly my favorite piece of the whole work. This is really calming. Love it.
Or Any Given Night - Deep synth intro. Some mesmerizing synth work on this, then into some dissonance, that I think will answer itself and conclude at some point. At least that's what my mind wants to happen. The overlaps give in to some sort of beacon that fades off in the distance, giving this some nice closure.
Final thoughts:
As far as drone music, I don't delve into that style very much, and it was a bit of a stretch to convince myself to do so (I had listened to a couple songs from this incarnation of YorkDaddy's musical stylings), and I have to say I was a bit put off at the beginning, and was getting a bit anxious for something to happen in the middle of it, then at Pararhyme, I felt like I understood what York was trying to do here. Pull the listener through the mud, only to clean them off at the end and give them a treat to take with them on the ride home. York is a fine musician, and I hope he finds a groove in this niche of the musical spectrum.