REVIEWS reviews...... sounds...... pictures...... words...... links...... info from Outburn #7 outburn@cogent.net   RHOMB - Hidden Topographies (The Foundry) Delicate, subtle excursions constructed from brittle tonalities and airy electronics. "Empty Roads" is gentle, twitchy electronics intruded upon by a giant's heavy footsteps; "Ice FIelds" has got an appropriate skimming on a frozen lake feel; "Vacant Cities" is the trek through the sparse, pristine, ruins of an abandoned futuristic city. Some of the new age tones are a bit tinny to this listener's ears, and the music doesn't carry much resonance, but there is still a scattered, fulfilling quality. Rhomb approach their craft from a different angle, one of which I am not as familiar. An echoing clank recorded here doesn't express distance as would seem the norm, but nearness, as though we are within view of the sound source, if only we could focus on the direction in which the sound emanates. More along the lines of Vidna Obmana's light structures than, say, Robert Rich's darker, subterranean side, and yet elements of both are present. Interesting and odd. (JC Smith)