Interesting and long awaited second album for NYC's Defrag(mentation), who back at the beginning of the decade had participated to the rise of the hard and dark US breakcore sound. Genres, bands and labels have come and gone ever since, but this "Lament Element" still carries a distinctive oppressive, heavy broken sound. Somewhat reminiscent in its sonorities (and vocal samples) of early Venetian Snares, but cleaner and updated (check the dubstep hooks) this album is a particularely competent one, if not at times contained. Fans of dark IDM and non-nonsense breakcore should appreciate this a lot.