Name: That Kid'll Put You In Your Place by Suburban Cracked Collective
Duration: 11 min 42 s
Description: From "Pineal Dreams" tape on Chemical Imbalance.

Tim Goss (The Shadow Ring / Call Back The Giants) returns with his first outing under his birth name. Afterfly is a mature and compelling work that observes life as a set of repeating patterns, no matter the apparent differences everything has already happened. After one fly comes another and another and another ad infinitum.

You have the face of an old man, catch me if you can.

Afterfly serves as an initiation into a more thorough overview of Tim’s current practise followed with a book of recent illustrations to be released on Penultimate Press in 2022.

Edition of 300 copies. Comes with a booklet with a story to be read alongside Fly 4 (merely a rehash of the conquistadors, life forever repeating with no obvious improvement).

Fly II

Taken from the Penultimate Press LP 'Chiltern' (PP16) penultimate-press.blogspot.co.uk

Hour House - Magenta Mine (PP16) LP

From "Pineal Dreams" tape on Chemical Imbalance.

That Kid'll Put You In Your Place

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-167/

FFFoxy Podcast #167

Nick Klein has released a fine line of killer vinyls through labels like Bank Records NYC, L.I.E.S, Viewlexx and recently the tasty "No Shortage of Rope" on Helm's Alter. His record for us is called "Actor Network Theory" and is a monumental trip touching down in darker ambient stuff and slower techno for that party you need to go to when all this lockdown bullshit is over. Klein is based in Holland nowadays.

300 copies. OUT IN NOVEMBER 2020!!! 
Distro through Boomkat. Digital will be available.

NICK KLEIN - SPIDER IN BROWN POWDER (iDEAL190 LP)

The crumbling wall felt course to the touch as he trailed his fingers across it, trying to find his way out of this damp, festering place. Somewhere far off he could hear the shouts of his so-called "friends", laughing and jeering at his expense. He had wanted to prove himself, show them he was worthy of being part of their group, but now, stumbling around in the darkness, he only felt stupidity and fear. They were no friends of his.

To celebrate reaching their 50th release, Manchester-based label Natural Sciences serve up a 20 track V/A with contributions from label mates old and new. As ever, it's a heady mix of mutant electronics, showcasing the diverse sounds that have continued to stand the label apart from the rest. From hip hop to electro, booty bass and industrial, Age In Decline features tracks from Mutant Joe, Galaxian, Prequel Tapes, DJ Frankie, and our pick from Finnish producer Sansibar.

PREMIERE: Sansibar - Can't See [Natural Sciences]

Look!Pond performing 'Mountains'.  Recorded by Holly Wheeler at Backbone, Brisbane on 19 September 2020.  Photo by Marek Rygielski. 
 Track is from the "I Don't Wanna Be Here' tape release on Eternal Soundcheck available at http://eternalsoundcheck.bandcamp.com

Look!Pond - Mountains - Live At Backbone 19-09-2020

It makes less sense to say that Maths Balance Volumes formed in 2002 than to say that, since that year, they have been collapsing into something, again and again. Just as the three members fell together with no plan or allegiance to any style or genre, each track falls together as the broken pieces of songs and sounds meet to make a temporary and frightening whole. Things make their way into a Maths Balance Volumes song when they don’t or won’t work anymore, when they have escaped their owner, or hidden away where nobody is supposed to find them. When things fall together—when the wooden creaks and radio hisses gather for a minute alongside bass lines and melancholy voice—there is a beauty that sounds like it was made by nobody and for nobody.

The city of Mankato, Minnesota has been the steady gathering point for the band since its beginnings. Mankato had always provided an ominous backdrop: built on stolen Dakota land, the city was the site of the largest mass execution in US history, when 38 Dakota prisoners were hanged on in 1862 in a straightforward act of genocide. But in their music of the past twelve years, Maths Balance Volumes has made music in and of a hometown overshadowed and unsettled by its history, music for a world in which things have never been okay. Traditional American folk genres seep in at times, but never as the incarnation of a living popular culture—only as ghosts or unliving effigies.

A Year Closer tells us already in its title what its theme is: approaching death, time ticking away and getting closer with each track of the record. We are told in the first song that our protective mask isn’t working, warned by the storm clouds and a ticking bedroom clock in “Dark Skies.” We hear fears of death approaching in the sad words exchanged by lovers who see they will run out of time, or already have, as in “We Had Time” or the romantic lament of “When I Drink.” In “Work Last Monday,” all of life passes with cold automatism in an “office apartment,” as a narrator broods over early onset dementia, remembers the details of rituals for respecting the dead, and thinks of how a hole is opening up in reality itself. The singer of “Over the Hill” isn’t apparently afraid of growing older and becoming a “man,” but only leaks a few disjointed details of his plans for disappearing, collapsing, turning into a tree, and finding a home. “Angel of Mercy” tries to resurrect the Christian promise of a life after death, anxiously asking if anyone is up there waiting for us after the oblivion of this world. 

But these are just the moments when A Year Closer speaks in words clear and audible enough to be understood. The giddy, agitated voice of “The Price” speaks only to itself in a private language, hidden away in a tin can somewhere. Musically, A Year Closer is a series of pieces that make symphonies out of separate processes of decay and disappearance: unidentified cracking and creaking objects, broken equipment, and lost melodies that seem to have escaped other songs and wandered into the room looking for a place to hide. These are the moments that the listener of Maths Balance Volumes always knows are coming, waits for, and settles in temporarily for a moment of repose. Maybe this is the meaning of A Year Closer: while waiting for the worst, things come together, a “we” with no name but with a rhythm, a tenuous but definite harmony to share as the clock ticks. Even if, when the lights are turned on, it turns out nobody was there. - Paul Buchholz

Taken from PP48 A Year Closer LP coming soon

A Year Closer

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Maths Balance Volumes - Dark Sky

Rory McPike dons his 2200 alias and picks up the guitar for some sun-bleached, Krautrock-leaning downtempo.

'World's Fare' is out October 10th on Altered States Tapes.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2GGBL9g

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That Kid'll Put You In Your Place

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