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Stuart Orchard releases ‘Right Idea Done Wrong.’ This one leans heavy on the drums, acoustic guitars shimmering in the top end, and electric guitars articulate and long decaying in the background. I like the way it fills in over the tune, breaking into the bridge and receding into the breakdown. Textural and driving throughout.
Recorded at Elemental Studio
Mixed by Mark Ralph and Stuart Orchard
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
Stuart Orchard releases That Old Thing Again. It’s a single produced by Michael Terren with accompanying, duelling remixes from Ylem, and Damian Giambazi.
This one’s an odd metre, often syncopated number conjuring shades of Thom Yorke. With Stuart’s vocal performance a real highlight. The remixes really pick up quite different threads in the original and run with them. Precise, intense, lite-industrial descriptors of Ylem’s work and Giambazi far more enveloping, floating and ethereal.
Produced by Michael Terren
Remixed by Ylem and Damian Giambazi
Music and artwork by Stuart Orchard
Typography by Rhys Butler
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
Out on the New Weird Australia label is the object activates by synthesiser focused, ambient artist Plyanci. Lush, layered synth really details a foreign sonic landscape on this track.
Congrats to Plyanci on getting some international airplay on Adventures in Sound and Music by The Wire Magazine.
Music and mix by Plyanci aka Oz Kesik
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
The new orphans album has been a long time coming. Recorded in early 2019, and having congealed, fermented, and matured, it is out Friday May 21st. The album continues Dom Barrett (guitar), Ben Greene (drums) and Dan O’Connor’s (trumpet) exploration of sound and texture, constantly alluding to vision and narrative. The record liner notes read:
The departure from, and return to a singular, innocuous point in time—without moving, without thinking, without duration.
orphans often craft a situation or imagined context for their recorded work in order to anchor the art, and perhaps provide a starting point for the listener. On acquiescence/coalescence the band consider the instantaneous and the possibility of perceiving time outside of its regular flow. The situation is captured in crayon by artist Holli Scott for the cover artwork and the music is best consumed in one sitting and via headphones.
The first track acquiescence is streaming now on Bandcamp. It hits all your favourite streaming sights on Friday, May 21st.
strata is the new video album from experimental vocalist Sage Pbbbt, working under the pseudonym digital penetration. Pbbbt pieces together this sonically rich, glitchy record from acoustic and electronic samples manipulated in Reaper, and accompanies the work with visual component created in the same fashion. The pace and repetition of the music allows the listener to shift between the audio strata and engage at different time scales over the album. Also outstanding is the variation between tracks which reveals some heavy drops and disorienting moments, ultimately feeding anticipation for whatever might happen next.
strata is out now on Tone List
Produced by Sage Pbbbt
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
strata will premiere in at the Audible Edge Festival 2021, April 17th, at Backlot Cinema
Perth, Western Australia