Beginning with “Armadillo Stance” like that is poignant! “Armadillo Stance” exemplifies the integrity of the Manorexia material! A remarkable difference between the orchestration of the music at the first chamber arrangements for performance in New York City several years ago & the new ensemble is the addition of another string player, rounding out the string quartet! “Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters” is a work of such genius that the first dozen times I listened to it my mind exploded, & I fell asleep!
The electronic versions are easier to believe than the arrangements for chamber players. Mr. Thirlwell’s players use their instruments in new ways to perform this music. “Bruxism” from the Manorexia “Volvox Turbo” album sounds like it could be part of the development of “Fluorescent Radition.” “Canaries in the Mineshaft” leads to new music contained in Manorexia’s electronic album “The Radiolarian Ooze”’s Edison Medicine musical elements!
At the first Manorexia performances, I think I thought about the absence of the Manorexia movements that lean toward the ambient side; I think the chamber orchestration of “The Mesopelagic Waters” answers things I had thought of! In this context, “Canaries in the Mineshaft” is less than optimistic. It’s transfixing still. “Chloe Don’t Know I’m Alive” is an unimaginable ambient movement fleshed out to be relentlessly thick, ominous, moody. That’s how that can be!
The packaging design’s color theme is similar to the black/ white/ red/ gray four-color theme of Foetus albums, except the palette’s tint is shifted garnet with fade. This chamber album is the first Manorexia CD that makes itself of more like four colors. I like how on the cover only the first J & last l connect to the border!
“Armadillo Stance” sounds kind of like it uses a Middle Eastern scale. The entire ensemble singing as added chorus in “Toxodon Mourning” is so beautiful. I don’t know how to avoid poetry. The way the end of “Zithromax Jitters” seems composed differently than the version on “Volvox Turbo” is like clouds breaking. Harmonies are moved over, & rhythms are. The monotony of “Toxodon Mourning” holds the audience in a rapt environment. The arrangement of Mr. Thirlwell’s “Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters” is starker than the presentation on the previous Manorexia CD’s. “Armadillo Stance” starts “Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters” with an ambience bristling & lambent, & “Armadillo Stance” isn’t the only place that’s a music of each note densely atmospheric! The rhythmic development in “Fluorescent Radiation” focuses the dark through a prism. Mr. Thirlwell has made certain sounds. “Tubercular Bells” will go & show orchestration’s correct & appropriate sound disjunct spacious silence in contrast from combining as “Volvox Turbo” is fourteen merging movements where important-in-terms-of-rhythm’s-gravity tones! Playing the inside of the piano is dudely. There is a lot to hear in this music. When the Manorexia material first was shown for a chamber ensemble, it was surprising that so much particular music could be made with such small, real, small instrumentation. Now, with Mr. Thirlwill’s “Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters”, it’s surprising & astonishing how much sound can happen with adding another magnificent string player only! As far as you can go into the ocean, the mesopelagic waters, antithesizes or promulgates the musical work of Mr Thirlwell just preceding this, Eremikophobia. Between the electronic versions of Manorexia from “Volvox Turbo” to “The Radiolarian Ooze”, happenstantial underwater interest, & Mr. Thirlwell’s “Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters”, focus shifts around between string sounds & percussion sounds & piano sounds!
What Mr. Thirlwell has done with his Manorexia project is something that could not be wreck wrested or simply just heard! The depths of this music cannot be expected, & the orchestration demonstrates how unknown the depths of this music are. To me this is the most aesthetically pleasing musical work in the world ever!

I’m impressed and silenced.

So vivid, yet dark and begeistering.

Same pieces, but such a different dimension compared to performances on the studio albums.
I miss mr. Thirlwell performing in my area so i can attend liveshows, but this album makes up a bit for that…

Buy it! Listen to it! Live it!