Graham Dunning - Quern
Released: April 2 In a world of overly-perfect techno and house music, Graham Dunning’s latest album Quern marks something intentionally deviant from this expectation. What we are presented with is the heavily influences of techno and house, in all its serene quantization, that has been injected with a feeling of “drift” or even “fiddliness.” Nothing is perfect here by design. It’s the audible equivalent of looking at ostensibly straight lines and slowly noticing the small deviations that form a theoretical intersection far down the road. Not to math nerd out too much on this, but suffice to say that these intentional imperfections define much of what we get here in its various manifestations, giving everything that slightly unstable vibe. Each track either leans more or less heavily into this aesthetic and it tends to change within the tracks themselves. Taking “Tentacle Motion Study” as an example, for much of the track it feels like a rather straightforward acid tech track. But...
