Experimental duo EVIL GIMA returns with their latest avant-garde project, Elements, released on October 30, 2025, under Fire, Fire, Red Star Down! Records. Founded in 2015 by award-winning film composer Dave Wirth, the project later expanded when Wirth teamed up with musician and artist Jorge Martinez to create Alluvion in 2020. This album was celebrated for its unnerving ambience and bold experimentation. With Elements, the Austin-based duo ventures even further into abstraction, blurring the line between musical structure and sound sculpture. Created in just one intense weekend in May 2024 using Eurorack synthesizers, the record explores quarter tones, irregular scales, and unsettling harmonies.
The opening track, โEnthalpy,โ unfolds like a slow awakening. It begins with a cold, high-frequency buzz that expands into a haunting drone. Gentle piano keys enter with disquieting calm, as they evoke the eerie stillness before catastrophe. The track builds a sense of tension without release, like garnering all this beauty only to teeter on the brink of decay.
Next, โBoiling Point Transfusionโ comes with rushing gusts of air and metallic bursts that sound like steam spraying over hot iron. The crackling glitches and fluid textures create an industrial yet oddly organic atmosphere, like hearing machinery breathe.
โNuclear Chargeโ goes heavier, with a wall of distorted frequencies and low-end pressure buzzing like radiation in sonic form. Itโs menacing, mechanical, and hypnotically relentlessโan auditory descent into chaos.
Finally, โExthalpyโ can work like a dark mirror to the opener in one way. Deep drones rise and shimmer, gradually swallowed by grainy distortion and flickering gleaming tones that pulse like dying embers in static. It comes as suffocating while being transcendental, as it closes the record in obliteration.
With Elements, EVIL GIMA engineer and chilling, immersive atmosphere. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan