A woman’s voice intones the melody of a child’s bedtime song (hence the track’s title, “Lullabye”) amid throbbing synthesized bass and squawking, barely comprehensible (purposefully so) emergency-services chatter. In combination, the elements suggest multiple narratives converging toward tragedy. The same could be said of the album as a whole: *Graveyard of Forgotten Gods*, a three-track EP from NoiseTheorem, who’s based in Chicago, Illinois. Old-school video-game projectile noises enliven a dubby, spacey, downtempo techno on “Tears for Venus,” which conjures up the likelihood that someone managed to recreate a didgeridoo simulacrum inside of a hacked Second Life account (and just so there’s no ambiguity: that’s meant as a compliment). And on “Song for Ellie,” a gothy procession of dark beats and whirly effects finds the tiniest glimmer of hope in a gentle keyboard motif.
Get the full set at [noisetheorem.bandcamp.com](https://noisetheorem.bandcamp.com/album/graveyard-of-forgotten-gods). More from Noise Theorem at [noisetheorem.com](https://www.noisetheorem.com) and [soundcloud.com/noisetheorem](www.soundcloud.com/noisetheorem). (The voice on “Lullabye” is Janet Kownacki’s.)