"This is a seriously listenable, cutting-edge industrial masterpiece." The Wire magazine

Ephemera: The second in ATTRITION's occasional series of dark ambient instrumental soundtracks, was released to critical acclaim on the now defunct Hyperium label in Germany in 1995 - a follow up to ATTRITION's This Death House album of dark analogue soundscapes of 1982.... This album is much more an exploration of the emerging digital technologies of the times.... Founder Martin Bowes using these tools to take a more abstract look at the themes of love, sex, religion, beauty, hope and despair that pervade any ATTRITION album... here they capture emotion and allow the listener space to reflect.... To populate these pieces with their own dreams or... sometimes.. nightmares

"...Check out the post-industrial phenomena that Martin Bowes lines up on this splendid album: consumerism (the modish, airbrushed box sleeve), new technologies (a planetful of synths and samplers) and postmodern decentring (a bewildering array of borrowed styles glimpsed with disorientating speed and transitory-ness).
This is a seriously listenable, cutting-edge industrial masterpiece, an album that for once dares to transcend the genres narratives. sure, there's the time-honoured blurring of the known boundaries of sound, but there's something more than the usual gothic grind here - something traditional, something almost representational.
The found-sound panorama Bowes creates can sometimes be almost picaresque in it's diversity - scratched mongrel-barks, looped coughs, flyaway piano, all underpinned with rock tempi and heart stopping stop-starts. "from a whisper, to a rage" the sleeve contends portentously, but with sonic polyvariance like this on show it's an apt description. "Wetenscap (dream number nine)" is a case in point - scraps of seraphic singing and time lapsed rolling tides whirlpool around a sluggish two-cylinder beat, when in wanders a plaintive synth intoning Beethoven's big "Ode to Joy" theme from the Ninth Symphony.
....one considers the refreshing change of colours Bowes brings to this often over-monochromatic genre.... great stuff."  The Wire magazine - UK