“Aftermath” is the fourth album of Eric Quach’s project, ThisQuietArmy. This guy is a drone genius, perfectly finessing the taut tension between beauty and desolation. I don’t see this as a dark album at all, just a bleak one. One that casts a blanket of snow over a vast vacant lot. The outlook is just a wide lifeless frost. No teeth-baring yetis, no violent blizzards, no, nothing like that. Just… well, nothing. A blank winter landscape, ripe only with the reality of loneliness and lostness. You realize that there you are, alone. These drones paint such a wintry landscape. Each layer flattening out like a fresh tier of new fallen snow. No footprints, no nothing. Just the seemingly silent ring in your ears that reminds you that you are not dead yet. Reminds me a bit of a Peter Wright disciple, but with some extra looped noises subtly thrown into the mix than I remember Mr. Wright adding to his own recipe. Perhaps not the most in-season album at the moment, but bound to greet you with appropriation when the leaves start turning in a few months. I guess this is the “Aftermath” of seasons past and soon approaching as well. 8/10 -- Dave Miller (24 June, 2010)