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Boomkat: FWD26.

Another instalment of agro, ambience and head on rhythms on the Forwind catalogue coming from Distortion Of The Cell by Seasons (pre-din). The Manchester based artist is probably most commonly associated with his work in the ambient and drone fields having released a string of well received albums on his own Thy-Rec imprint, Mystery Sea and Type Recordings. Distortion of the Cell continues down the darker paths explored on his 2012 release Lesser and Still and 2017’s hiatus ending Kill-Sweep.

The latest addition to the mysterious Mancunian’s catalogue is a varied release that takes in several stylistic approaches while remaining a coherent listen. Roughly half of the album is focused on a meld of post-punk and dingy club influenced beats propelling the atmospherics that range from warm and engaging to full throttle and abrasive. The beatless interludes and final stretch take in some more retrained ambience as well as some searing efforts in that cross section between drone and the warmer end of the noise spectrum. There’s a thematic and musical twisting of the lines that hints at a corruption at source and of self, and if you’re in a good mood an eventual dissolution in the soaring static.

Distortion Of The Cell: FWD26.

FWD26 brings another instalment of agro, ambience and head on rhythms to the Forwind catalogue with Distortion Of The Cell by Seasons (pre-din). The Manchester based artist is probably most commonly associated with his work in the ambient and drone fields having released a string of well received albums on his own Thy-Rec imprint, Mystery Sea and Type. Distortion of the Cell continues down the darker paths explored on his 2012 release Lesser and Still and 2017’s hiatus ending Kill-Sweep.

Distortion Of The Cell: [Thy-013].

‘But now you’re just a shadow, and all you do is fall, fall, fall…’

Kill-Sweep: [Thy-014].

‘There will be violence yet…’

00:00 – C E K _ I K
06:57 – R _ I N L O
12:10 – F E _ T U L
14:38 – S U E H _ L D
18:32 – T N C _ E Z

 

W.T

D.O.T.C

Discarded.

Foxy Digitalis: [Thy-012].

Steve Dewhurst’s Best Cdr of 2011.

Seasons (Pre-Din) provided me with my first review and interview for Foxy Digitalis, all the way back in March. It’s true I have a soft spot for the mysterious artist’s work and I do find it incredibly sad that he chose to stop making music after this, one of his most powerful releases. The impression I got from him during the interview (which was done via email – I never found out his real name or saw a picture of his entire face) was that he’d completely exhausted himself through music and had reached a point from which he found it impossible to continue. Lesser and Still, full of hidden anger and frustration, was a suitably epic way to end a project that developed out of piano miniatures into radio static and through to flat-out noise terror.