Having come into that world without a background in film\u2026 I mean, I had done work as an audio technician in various ways, recording music, mixing music, doing CD mastering, working in Chicago public radio, making radio programs, and doing live broadcasts and blah blah blah. I had some sense of how to work in audio but not any training in how to do soundtrack for a movie. I had blissfully approached that without a sense of what conventions I was either making use of or not making use of.
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Otherwise, however, the album delivers on its title\u2019s promise: we do hear plenty of water, and plenty of tape. Things bubble and splash; recorded waves and thunderstorms cut in and out abruptly. There are other rattles and bangs, looped and spliced and rearranged in all manner of ways. Occasionally, some marimba, gongs or bells sneak in, but they do not sound played, exactly. Rather, they have an icy, almost mechanical precision, which only accentuates the music\u2019s alien feeling. I wish I could tell you more about this strange artefact, but I can say this much: you won\u2019t hear anything else quite like it. \u2014Mark Cutler
The opening sets the tone for the rest of the album. Most of the performed music consists of unidentifiable abrasion: things that scrape, bang, rattle and sputter. Through this weave equally opaque field recordings of rummaging, banging, wind blowing and water dripping. Nothing sounds natural; rather, Youngs plays explicitly with layers of recorded sound, creating juxtapositions which shouldn\u2019t coexist in physical space. Whereas it is easy to imagine Youngs recording many of his cozier, avant-folk albums from the comfort of his Scotland home, nothing here calls to mind any house I\u2019d want to visit. Rather, it sounds like walking through a deserted, apocalyptic landscape\u2014a seaside town, perhaps, ice cold and pitch-dark, because the smoke has blotted out the sun. \u2014Mark Cutler 2ff7e9595c
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