'The Woe Trumpets' is an audiovisual album that reimagines dystopian narratives by attempting to find hidden subtexts within the grand metaphor of apocalypse. Available on digital and cassette via Decaying Spheres on 01 July '22 with a special screening at Chapeltown Picture House in Manchester, UK on 30 June '22. 

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Additional release info: 
LABEL: Decaying Spheres
ARTIST: Mathoms
TITLE: The Woe Trumpets
GENRES: Ambient, Electronic
CAT: DS011
RELEASE DATE: 2022-07-01

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An inconsolable atmosphere unfurls slowly through synth-led excursions, gradually drenched as they lurk under a bruised sky.

Rest Assured signals the return of one of the UK’s most impressive electronic artists to Decaying Spheres, with the Sangam’s second release on the label.

The artist deftly unveils a shadowy world like many times before, showcasing familiar murky soundscapes riddled with euphoric echoes and a penchant towards forlorn melodies. Perfectly combining a shivering, emotionally-charged nucleus with a feeling of postmodern indifference, Sangam presents a clearer glimpse into a cold dystopia than ever before.

An amnesiac quality flows through the release as phrases repeat, with only the steady rain to push things forward. Predicted Scape presents a moment of catharsis encased within rain-speckled amber as music lures out pained, pitched-up vocal flourishes, the voice trembling in the rain, further cementing Sangam’s knowledge of and contribution to the post-dubstep UK sound. Bottled Up provides something amounting to equanimity, as a more self-assured – yet still uncertain – pad makes its home in the downpour, warming itself with melodic affirmations.

Rest Assured also invites listeners to appreciate Sangam’s compositional skills from a more classical perspective. Tracks like Distant Embers push out from the darkness with gothic strings providing a bedrock of melancholy, deep spiritual undulations pushing up from somewhere beneath the wet concrete. Look Up communicates an almost cosmic feeling of acceptance as strings and pads overflow joyously from the heavens above, stretching out like an elongated final note at a rewarding conclusion to all things. 

Decaying Spheres present listeners, not only with another incredible Sangam release, but one that provides a bold and unwavering realisation of this artist’s place in the pantheon of UK electronic artists.

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Imagine a simple straight line; this is our first dimension - length. Now, let that line expand into a square, revealing the second dimension - length and width. Allow that square to evolve into a cube, welcoming us into the third dimension - length, width, and depth. These are the dimensions of our familiar, tangible reality.

But what if we dared to envision a fourth dimension to this cube? It seems like an impossible task, doesn't it? Just as the fourth dimension extends beyond our everyday perception, the concept of hyperobjects presents a similar challenge, unfathomable yet fascinating.

Hyperobjects are entities so vast and dispersed across space and time that they eclipse ordinary human perception. We encounter fragments of hyperobjects daily, yet their full form remains elusive, existing in a timeline far beyond a single human gaze.

Take styrofoam as an example - 25 million cups each year doomed to landfills, each with a life expectancy of 500 years. This material has an immense earthly footprint, far beyond its mundane appearance. Each cup is merely a 'local manifestation' of a much larger entity, spanning the present and stretching into the future, as explored by Tim Morton in "Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World". Isolated, styrofoam seems trivial, yet when perceived as a unified entity across space and time, its true significance is revealed, assuming a near god-like stature that casts a vast shadow over our human existence.

This album, with its exploration of hyperobjects, emulates the quest for the fourth dimension, pushing the boundaries of creativity. It uncovers how hyperobjects, in their fragmented state, hinder emotional connection. But through a deep dive into their sensory aspects - sight, sound, touch, smell - a deeper understanding begins to surface. It's the audacious act of imagining the unfathomable scale of such an entity that truly propels a profound exploration of the relationship with its elusive essence.

Choosing the soundscape as its canvas, the album paints a sonic picture of the world of hyperobjects. By honing in on audio, it carves a perceptible window into these complex entities. Each track, a symphony of natural, industrial, and vocal sounds, augmented by ethereal synth lines, is a unique sonic exploration of this voyage into the unknown.

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Decaying Spheres introduce Polish producer Sebby Kowal to the label, gifting listeners a release in which a half-dormant world appears, experienced through a somnambulist state.

Each venture within Wonders presents a grounding element to the sonic experience – most often muffled activity or flowing water – through which weave tenderly composed and arranged ambient pads. Through this, Kowal allows the listener passage through a range of emotive journeys.

Always & Forever, for instance, shines a particularly gloomy light on a hypnagogic vision, a sense of reality only perceived through the distant trickling of water and indecipherable movements. Foreboding pads blanket the atmosphere, braver chords bobbing to the forefront of the listener’s scope before losing their courage and fading away.

Its follow-up, Lavender, showcases a world drained of life to an almost dystopian hopelessness. Kick drums dive to a morose depth, along with a downbeat melody. Untempered crackling pushes through, drifting as a voice communicating from an unseen location in one moment, to sounding like a cold scanner, searching unsuccessfully for signs of life in the next.

Though often sullen and unforgiving, Wonders will surprise listeners with moments of brilliant freedom. The airy and expansive titular track, communicating feelings of rebirth and taking influence from sodden 90s pads, or the penultimate Good Night, in which even showering rain can’t keep a warm feeling of absolution from emerging. 

Sebby Kowal contributes to the ever-growing selection of talent releasing through Decaying Spheres. In Wonders, whether it be an atmosphere that is cold and almost lifeless or flowing with activity and comfort, a strand of humanity runs through each and every track. 

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