Tom Hall - Failed Attempts at Silence

[auxien]

this one came out a few months ago on SUPERPANG and i've been listening to it a hell of a lot. it didn't terribly impress me on first blush, but it's one of those that really reveals itself on further listens: lots of dark ambience/noise/drama but never cheesy or tryharding to be 'soundtrack' stuff or whatever, but also not full on weird/experimental like a lot of SUPERPANG hits me as. feels wrong tagging it as 'ambient' just cause there's no beats because it's really anything but background music.

anyway, will probably be on my top 10 this year, really worth checking out imo

https://tomhall.bandcamp.com/album/failed-attempts-at-silence

 

[cern]

Cool isn't that the MAX/MSP guy? 

[auxien]

14 hours ago, cern said:

Cool isn't that the MAX/MSP guy? 

yeah, didn’t realize until i was making this thread last night and looked him up, i thought he was part of a group or something but i guess he just does Max/MSP stuff. he’s got one other release on Bandcamp but as far as i can tell that’s all of his stuff.

[Scaramouche]

Wow, this sounds fantastic on first listen. Instabuy. Just picked this up, along with some of his earlier releases. Not heard of this chap before, wasn't aware of the album with Lawrence English. 

I only started following SUPERPANG after the awesome Bethan Kellough release. Will have to check the full catalogue to make sure I'm not missing anything else. 

[Extralife]

Really moving stuff. Good rec, team.

[auxien]

discount for this/all SUPERPANG for BC Friday today