How does one approach the problem of describing the indescribable? When an alien entity that defies our carbon-based biology presents itself to us, the experience will likely be one that human language fails to competently describe. Like in the novel Blindsight by Peter Watts, the cold confrontation with a life-form so bizarre and different than our own evolution would be staggering and uncomfortable. With the newest album from Seattle’s Voidthrone, I am convinced that we are all witness to a new form of life that is alien to those even well-traversed with the strange and will struggle to comprehend fully. … Continue reading Review: Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat