A Story of Rats, Thought Forms (side A)

I discovered A Story of Rats (Garek Druss) from his collaboration with Pussygutt on 2008's Sea of Sand.  2011's Thought Forms is Druss's first solo album, and my first extended exposure to his work as leader—it's not a purely solo album, though, as there are different collaborators on each LP side.  Where the collaboration with Pussygutt was thick and heavy, Thought Forms is more spacious.  Some sounds sustain as drones, where others pulse and provide movement.  There is even distribution of sounds throughout the spectrum, and panning is used nicely to create space.  The sounds themselves, which are abstract and hard to identify, tend not to have aggressive attack or distortion, but instead can often be murky and primitive sounding.  The beautiful packaging has a hand screened cover on thick white paper and a hand screened insert on textured black paper, but I had trouble finding the album title anywhere.