Dragon Flattens Time on the Glitch-Worn ‘Ouroboros’

Dragon’s new album borrows its title from the ancient serpent that devours its own tail—a loop that never closes. That cyclical logic runs through Ouroboros on the Evel label, an eight-track collection that bends and reconfigures synthetic debris with a sculptor’s precision.

The music moves in a space between leftfield electronics and a more severe, industrial minimalism. Opener “Approaching the Fixed Point” lays down a dark ambient undercurrent that keeps shifting under restrained abrasion, while “Luxx” cuts through with raw laser-like pulses. “Irrational Topology” channels a distinctly Autechrean propulsion, compressing blips and shuffling beat fragments into a tight, twitchy form.

Dragon’s control of texture sharpens as the album progresses. The squelching static of “Wave Function Collapse” and “Vetch” exposes brittle rhythmic sputters, and “Inline Conditional” pulls apart ruptured patterns into something genuinely tense—industrial glitch treated as an unstable state rather than a style. Then the record’s weight shifts. The sixteen-minute closer “Beginning Is End, End Becomes Beginning” dissolves from hazy exhaust into advanced digital signal processing that feels like spatial perception getting quietly dismantled. It stands alone as a composition, but it also locks the whole album’s logic into place: disintegration as a means of rebuilding.

Ouroboros is available now on Evel via Bandcamp.