Fletina - Ineffectual States

 

Released: July 22

With his latest release, Scottish sound artist Fletina takes us on a conflicted, confusing and frustrating adventure. The album is based on a specific period that generally anyone faces from time to time - a period of uncertainty, a feeling of being unable to see anything cohesively, a time of being stuck. The album consists of two longform pieces, both of which feature imperfectly woven soundscapes built from a wide variety of sources from different times. The variety of places and times of recording and the manner in which they are sounded together makes for an unclear and confusing soundscape as water bubbles alongside the clacking of wooden balls and scrapes against a warehouse floor. 

The two pieces, named #1 and #2 respectively, are roughly equally in length and provide generally similar atmospheres. Both feature a rather persistent crackling sound of warm static through the second feels a bit warmer. Though both, we get taken on strange journeys that feel ever out of place. In his previous works, there is always a certain quality to the sounds used that ensure some kind of place is staying, even if very fuzzily. But Ineffectual States never allows this, placing us instead in weird non-Euclidean spaces that feel far removed from reality, even they use pieces pulled from it. For Ineffectual States, time and place and things that remain intentionally undefined and may actually be optional.