(Funprox) Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words from Sweden did the fourth release in the series. ‘Dead letters’ is one of the many projects by Thomas Ekelund. In this project Ekelund recreates a mood out of source material he decomposes. The results are dark soundscapes, that have the typical electronic feel over them. Deep resonating sound layers are joined by electronic noises. Although interesting, the overall feeling of this recording is distant and cold.

(Heathen Harvest) Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words is a young 25-year-old artist from Sweden who is making his mark with complex ambient drones. His prowess lies in creating songs that invoke conflicting emotions. Letters Spell Out Dead Words plunges the listener into a twenty-minute long journey of epic proportions. The track is an exploration of far off and desolate reaches of the solar system. The music is akin to standing behind a jet engine upon take off with earplugs in. Only you are schizophrenic. In addition, inside the rumbling rush of the jet engine you hear the tinkering and rustling of unseen persons. Noises from unknown sources rattle and clank inside the thundering drones but their nature and origin is indiscernible. The song invoked in me the experience of visiting some foreign interstellar planet where in the pitch darkness of the nightlife stirs and begins to awaken. This life is hidden you yet you hear it moving on all sides.

(Ampersand Etcetera) Dead Letters… presents a single track in 'The City Is Dead Or Dying'. In the opening section a wind becomes a drone that underlines and then dominates as soft rustles, fluttering stutters, voices or fast tones ply the surface, then a scritching scrabble. A new drone that is higher, more of a tone gradually takes over for the next part, with another wind, bubbling and key pulses like breaths. This central section is extended as a buzzing, organic scrabbling, the pulsing coming in waves, gradually changing texture. In the final section long harmonic tones become dominant, varying over a twinging as the piece suddenly becomes very active and forceful before it fades. This is one of those audio-hallucinogenic pieces where you keep hearing other sounds emerging from actual material. It is a mysterious, subdued world that invites entry.

...the rest in nothing but a dark ambient black like petroleum, liquid, or better viscose, which, few by few, is thickening, until there is a moment when the music is almost solid & without movement, just the previous moment to the final part, in which all the sounds become more roaming, metallic, strange & penetrating.« - from She Devine

The press kit states that the EP deals with the theme of urban decay and is to be seen as an exploration of one of the world's most hostile man made environments, the metropolis. And I can't really think of a better way to explain the dark tunnel of nightmarish field recordings and drones that this disc is packed with.« - from Broken Face

Certainly never the most uplifting of acts, Dead Letters... are nonetheless one of the most evocative purveyors of electronics today. Using subtle fragments of recorded sound, they manage to weave an incredibly emotive and suggestive audio fabric.« - from Immanence

Dead Letters build cathedrals of human body ashes, somehow able to frame them in the desert wind. The tension is there, firm and always present but never exploding. A great record.« - from Touching Extremes

...this record is divided into three parts. The first offers us rough surfaces of sounds, hidden in a fog of white noise with series of distant signals ... What follows after it can be compared to enormous, thundering sonic clouds ... when the last opus starts to appear - a dark ambience's changing slowly into beautiful, long lasting drone with delicate, sonic ornamentation in the background.« - by Krzysztof Sadza, from Eld Rich Palmer