Last year, 2025, turned out to be rather a productive year for Arnhem’s experimental guitar act VierNulVier. First, two collaborations with label-mate Autaar, and now this solo album.
Bezinksel contains a wide, vast, ambient landscape. It is a detailed exploration into greatly drawn-out patterns and textures. The album feels powerful and fragile at the same time. It is carefully strung from tiny, thin lines of vague melody, underpinned by slow-drifting, warmly textured swirls of guitar.
Further on into the album, elements of noisy garage rock peek out. Bezinksel conveys the attitude of punk with the speed of a glacier. That coldness shows up often. The album ties together a kind of primitive, encompassing warmth yet then erupts into glacial drone doom, only to return back to the warm breathy sounds of open strings singing the sounds of their own cosmos. The album being fully cyclical makes it a fantastic candidate for looping ad infinitum – You’ll never know it ended, nor where it began.
Bezinksel is a surprisingly mature release, without any of the fluff often found in experimental music. It weaves its drones organically and hypnotically. If you allow this record to work, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the ease with which the drone is transmitted.
Bezinksel is an 8-track album. Or, if you buy the CD, it’s one long track — as it was intended to be listened to.