Another release from Enough Records that could use some public exposure is Boiar – a Portuguese collective exploring experimental electro acoustic electronics – and their latest release Para Piratear in particular. The opener starts quite irritating with isolated beat fragments that saw more than one ring modulator during their processing lifetime and try to find themselves together for a mutant dub abstraction. Echo loops of glitchy and harsh sound patches provide convincing reasons for not touching funny looking pills from unknown strangers at the chill-out party.

Boiar have adapted both a mature, consistent and also confrontative style, that rejects consumer friendly elements that could broaden their base of listeners. Yet they also have almost lyrical moments like in rodeada por múmias amo-te where a sad theme is ghastly tortured by heavy filter processing and creates an authentic theatre of pain. Madeira vernelha even pays a visit to daemonic spoken word performance to a Goth inspired industrial sound (Einstürzende Neubauten?). A well placed contrast after the rather distressful, but amazing middle section of the release provides the final track with a more coherent go at the dubmatic genre and even features a subterranean low, stomach shaking bassline.

Boiar’s Para Piratear is a tough going for people who prefer lighter colours and broad daylight, but their blend of styles to an unique mixture of their own is surely worth listening and those familiar to the darker side of the moon probably take a liking for this six track release pretty soon.