sunken fence - Lentic
Released: February 19 Known by many other names, sunken fence brings us their first album bearing the new moniker filled with some rather innovative approaches to rhythm. The album is almost entirely comprised of field recordings with infrequent synthetic accompaniments with the field recordings standing out as the predominate source of strange rhythms though not all tracks have such a focus. The album’s opener, “afterbay,” is almost completely bereft of rhythms, utilizing looped field recordings to create a surreal yet natural feeling soundscape that is rather hypnotic despite its perceive formlessness. As the album goes on, the rhythms become a more prominent feature with “ducking pond” building one of the most intensely strange drum loops here. It has an almost slurry vibe to it, with the hits stretched out far beyond sounding natural at all as hits echo, waver, and slide all around the stereo field with the consistency of formed mush. It one of my favorite tracks on the ...
