Atta’s Apartment Slated for Demolition finds Dominick Fernow’s Vatican Shadow project at a crossroads. Originally released in 2012, the album still has the blank-eyed, cold, hypnotic minimalism of his earliest albums that made Vatican Shadow one of the most unlikely breakout artists of the noise underground in the early 2010s. It’s got the cryptic yet provocative title, in this case alluding to Mohamed Atta, the ringleader behind the 9/11 hijackings. It’s got the paranoid forever-war album art aesthetic. In some ways, Atta’s Apartment Slated for Demolition begins to break the mold and break the trend, replacing early ’80s industrial music for sleek, futuristic techno.
Despite being created over a decade ago for a controversial limited double cassette and then compiled on ‘it stands to conceal’ this is patient esoteric cold industrial perfectly suitable for our end times. Fully remastered version. Camo merge vinyl edition.
