Review from Vital Weekly 947
"Mattias Gustafsson sits behind an ancient small mixer, and we see some ancient electronic device and a cassette recorder. That's the picture on his album 'Altar of Flies', and it says he plays magnetic tape, field recordings and electronics. He has six pieces on his record here and they are a delight to hear. No doubt I say that because I am a sucker for such lo-fi electronic music with a cassette or two near by - as a medium to record on as well as using them for playback, especially when the playback heads are dirty - along with cheap and crude synthesizers, or perhaps just sound generators of a more simpler, electrical kind. Altar Of Flies ties all of this together and creates some heavy electronic music; heavy, mind you, noisy perhaps but noise isn't the end goal here. Things are surely loud, dirty and obnoxious, but its aim is not to shock. It is music that provides a strong presence in your living room, a forceful sound but with the aim to please - I think. Maybe I am wrong here and maybe there is some sort of shock treatment part of this, but in my perception this is music that is made to enjoy. This is the noise I like! Not on a similar noise level as say Francisco Meirino, whose work is more collage like, whereas Altar Of Flies is more continuous, like an ever sustaining ur-drone and heavily treated tapes ringing and singing along. This is the kind of musique concrete that they don't teach you at Ina-Grm. Excellent record!"
