Indieville
I'm only just learning about the Dead Sea Liner label but I'm really starting to like it. This sterling release comes packaged in a hand-painted cover whose acrylic droplets have been molded into vein patterns. Musically speaking, Textured Bird Transmission's Blazing Animal Faces is a hazy experiment in dream-drone, cautiously treading the line between ethereal bliss and a more odious, dark ambience. There is a strong sense of mystery to several of these compositions, including David Lynch-esque "At Night, Nature is in Mourning for the Loss of the Sun" and dense, hypnotic masterpiece "Black Holes Have Eaten the Sky." Meanwhile, strangely organic "Dawn Such Abyss" provides a tremendous endpoint for the disc, burying a pretty piano line in sonic fog before diminishing into nothing at all. Drone enthusiasts should take a gander, as this inspired CDR release fits well alongside some of the bigger names on the scene. Textured Bird Transmission doesn't challenge any genre conventions, but nevertheless Blazing Animal Faces is a solid ambient album perfectly calibrated for eerie walks down desolate ghost town streets. Leave it to this anonymous entity operating out of Weymouth to produce a record that's both profoundly organic and eerily post-apocalyptic.

Vital Weekly
Still Textured Bird Transmission remains a mystery. They have had a bunch of CDR releases, on Gold Sounds and Dirty Demos, and several for Dead Sea Liner. This is from a world in which 'progression' or 'new ideas' play hardly a role and things remain as they are. Which of course is a valid choice too, but one that puts the reviewer in difficulty. Textured Bird Transmission play cosmic, psychedelic drone music on a bunch of old analogue synths, tape-delay and some low level distortion pedals, I wrote before and its valid. Six lengthy pieces of music, almost an hour worth of music, created along the previous lines: they seem to me outtakes from longer parts, jams that lasted hours and hours. Just one candle was lit, some incense burned (yuk), illegal substances at hand and jam along in good spirit. Also written before, and also still valid. No progress was made here either. Nice one, again. Again. Quite nice, once again.