First track started and finished in Ableton Live 11.

Block Two Self

What is a guitar, anyway? That’s a question Karhide has been asking for more than a decade now.

From early releases that coupled the blowtorch intensity of Pelican with the assembly-line heaviness of Godflesh, his initial answer seemed to be a declaration of war.

On Erasable Assignments, Karhide’s approach to the guitar is much more expansive, sketching out scopic vistas, the guitar a texture at times indistinguishable from the myriad synths and pads on tracks like album centrepiece “Walker Circulation”. What is a guitar? We’re not sure any more.

This time around, as the span of Karhide’s music grows, you’re more likely to find a reference to the gods of soundtracking like Olafur Arnalds, John Carpenter or Trent Reznor than to his earlier influences like Big Black or Fudge Tunnel.

Unlike previous album All Lost, All Gone, composed entirely on the road in that dreadful space between check-in and check-out, in locations as far-flung as South Korea and Botswana, Erasable Assignments comes from a place of stability.

A change in lifestyle, a year spent in one place, and a studio stripped down to the absolute essentials allowed Karhide...  more
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released November 13, 2020

Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw www.redredpaw.com

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