the praying gods painted white, but rusting (cdr from bankruptcy audiocides)
while it can still be said that no one (at least that i'm aware of) sounds quite like the praying gods, certain elements carry over from one album to the next, such as the casio sk1-esque sample manipulation (whereby samples played at different speeds are layered over each other, which he actually does with cooledit, i believe) which shows up here on the track 'high steppin', a sample of which bleeds into the next track, 'curled up'. it's not a bad type of sound, but it does seem kind of repititious. although the overall sound of the album is harsh digital noise there's a good variation both within the tracks and from one to the next. the most subdued track, 'it's ok to sleep' is also one of my favorites, consisting only of a fuzzy, hissing loop that gradually gets slower and starts to stutter and  never really goes anywhere but really seems to work. 'taka-ashi-gani', the best track of the album (in my opinion) also uses the same stuttering effect, this time on what sounds like water being swirled around in a large metal container. the sound is looped and processed, getting more distant, distorted, reversed and generally messed up. the final track, 'transcendental pain' does it's best to live up to it's name with loud, high frequency distortion shrieking away until it abruptly ends. although it didn't knock palio off it's perch as my favorite pg album, this one was still pretty good.