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Review: 'Time Attendant & Howlround'
'The Blow Volume 2'   

-  Album: 'The Blow Volume 2' -  Label: 'Front & Follow'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '11th November 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'F&F045'

Our Rating:
This release follows Front & Follow’s split LP featuring IX Tab and Hoofus, and is the second in the label’s ‘The Blow’ series, which pitches two artists together to collaborate (or not) to fill two sides of an audiotape (each of approximately 30-45 minutes running time).

The rules are that there are no rules, and for this work, the artists came to the mutual agreement that they felt equally capable of producing something which saw each represent the ethos and sound of the other.

Time Attendant’s five tracks are experimental works built around squirty synth sounds. Wibbly, stuttering synth drones and groans scratch and scrape, the bubbling analogue sounds bend, bow, stray and interlace. The natural rhythms and tempos shift and interweave to dizzying effect. ‘Speaking in Spirals’ sounds like R2D2 rapping. Or something.

Howlround’s contribution, the 23-mintue ‘Amboy Parts 1-6’ is in a very similar vein – so much so as to be almost indistinguishable from the Time Attendant tracks. This does mean the album has a unity and coherence – as much as an album of analogue squiggles can, that is – but feels like a bit of a samey slog.

Time Attendant & Howlround – The Blow Volume 2 At Front & Follow


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Time Attendant & Howlround - The Blow Volume 2