AUTiSM ‘Neverberator’

Autism invented the techniques and sounds in Neverberator more than two decades ago. And before 2023 Omninorm Records made the album available to the public, the record was only offered as a limited CD. Like a time capsule being reinvented as a continued/new time capsule, Neverberator is like a time machine that gazes into the past with the aesthetic of the present and the reflection of the future. An album that exceeds the law of time.

The law of time isn’t the only thing bent by Vadim Militsin, the mastermind behind the music project Autism. Genres, sounds, and cultural influences all received a round of reinvention in Neverberator. 20 years ago, the record was innovative and ahead of its time. And it continues to stay true today. Even now, the methods and approaches Autism experiments in relation to collective memories, eras, and modernity are something that’s simply not seen in the music world. Most records only get a slight improvement, but Neverberator steps into the new century, bending new rules to its own sonic reality.

Sonically, the record roughly resembles a huge alien machine rushing underwater. Drastic, fluid-like, and otherworldly. Its impression seems to vary each time you tap into its particular realm. It’s an aesthetic blurred into a collage of emotions, taking shape in stimulating visual experiences you have yet to taste until now. It’s something entirely new yet bizarrely familiar. Strange but highly resonating.