Hopefully MRTYU requires little introduction, because the project evades easy description. An odd compound of vedic imagery, metal misanthropy, and violin agony, this music moves away from any particular fan base in pursuit of its distant, darkened idols. Ornate shroud is MRTYU's most potent spawn to date. Hewing closer to song form than previous releases, the album conceals Antony Milton's violent guitar and violin work behind MRTYU's characteristic murk. Its pieces transition from jagged riffs to eerie ambient scrapes through wooly feedback, approaching the uncanny. Although the year is yet young, 2009 will likely not produce a bleaker Aggraga record. Edition of 350. 180 gm. lps in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and Ðglued by reuben little of 43rd parallel press.' Available from Tipped Bowler in the US and Faunasabbatha in France. Faunasabbatha is the Ruralfaune outfit dedicated to occult & ritual sonic sabbaths and to a black metal.