Preserved Instincts maintain their intermittent schedule of Chasing Voices transmissions with Awoken By Tearss. The usual Preserved Instinct traits are maintained here; a one sided 12″ with little extra information housed in a sumptuous sleeve depicting some rather haunting imagery from centuries gone by. “Awoken By Tears” proves to be as memorable and equally resistant to the notions of beat matching. Swirling mists of laser guided synths slowly emerge and form a hypnotic pattern that teases your full attention before a rough jack hammering drum joins the fray. This signals the emergence of an ever growing crescendo of cacophonous rhythms and thick bass stabs that threaten to explode under pressure of their sheer intensity before out of nowhere the elements recede and all that’s left is your heart in your mouth.

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