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//The Point of Departure Recording Company//
£71.99 – 3xLP, Limited Edition Vinyl Boxset
Their era-defining 2010 album ‘feed-forward’ – out on vinyl for the first time since its original pressing.
No previous Sandwell release can prepare you for Feed-Forward’s technical and emotional achievement. It is supple, sensuous and utterly widescreen. Driving, infinite-horizon techno – vectors of pure energy – slashed with concussive polyrhythms and draped in swooping strings and a haunted, melancholic musicality only glimpsed on the preceding 12”s, if it was there at all. Above all it is a powerful concentration of atmosphere, its morbid romanticism drawing subtly on influences from post-punk, industrial and the early ‘80s avant-garde and culminating in a breathtaking final third of eerie concrète and beatific synth sequences. Feed-Forward is one of the great, elegiac evocations of Berlin, minting the future but grieving and ghost-filled; the offspring of Bowie’s Low and Basic Channel.
Tracklisting:
- Immolare (first)
- Immolare (main)
- Immolare (final)
- Grey cut out
- Hunting lodge
- Falling the same way
- Svar
- Double day
- Speed + sound (endless)
- 7″ untitled (1)
- 7″ untitled (2)
- Surrender to the unknown
