Indignant Senility, Consecration of the Whipstain (side C)

Indignant Senility is Portland solo artist Pat Maherr, who also makes hip-hop under the excellent name DJ Yo-Yo Dieting.  2011's Consecration of the Whipstain, his second release under the Indignant Senility moniker, follows the album Plays Wagner, which apparently employs samples of the composer's work.  There's an obvious antecedent in ambient music, as Wolfgang Voigt's GAS project also appropriates excerpts from Wagner.  Where GAS places beats underneath ambient drones, Consecration of the Whipstain consists only of ambient drones.  While most ambient albums today feature loud mastering and an extreme frequency response with de-emphasized midrange, these drones emanate quietly from the speakers, and consist largely of midrange frequencies with an especially absent treble range.  The double-album consists of four side-long tracks.  Modest differences in palette identify each track, and there's no other obvious track structure.  The sounds float by organically until they end, with volume, density, and frequency distribution generally remaining consistent.  Maherr's palette here is beautiful, lush, and engaging, and its beauty is emphasized by the undisciplined structural content.  The abstract cover image, with slight variations in a tan monochrome field, fits the music perfectly, and printing it on reverse-stock paper flatters the image.