The duo’s exceptional ability to create gritty compositions, minuscule glitch shapes, and abstract vocal data streams, all coalesce in The Longer Morrow, a potent auditory collection.
Densely captivating explorations of uncharted terrain
Many explosive and adventurous layers are buried deep within Tescon Pol‘s auditory fabric as Mic Finger and Ariel Johannessen form the duo at the forefront of these sonic experimentations. Whereas elements of techno, IDM, glitch, and braindance reflections shatter on the floor right in front of us, The Longer Morrow breaks down into a ten track manifest that also delves into unexpected—yet welcomed—darkened vocals that kick off within “Kronologie” and prominently on “skyypixels” and “cloudwall”—which feels like an Edward Ka-Spel offshoot. The album could be an ode to The Twilight Zone‘s episode 135 (of the same title) which originally aired in January of 1964—or maybe not. What is evident is that 2024 sees yet another excellent release complementing Concrete Collage‘s talented roster
These disquieting tunes, which alternate between soundscape formations such as “LM-10,” “Ostracoda,” “ULTOPIA,” and “Apoastron,” are densely captivating explorations of uncharted terrain. Fractured machines produce sporadic and compressed rhythms with hazy textures that are dispersed within industrial-electronic black and white hues. “HH-19,” for example, slithers over glitch environments, sounding as though Richard Devine and Autechre combined their intricate audio works into one drifting smorgasbord. Consequently, the duo’s exceptional ability to create gritty compositions, minuscule glitch shapes, and abstract vocal data streams, all coalesce in The Longer Morrow, a potent auditory collection.
The Longer Morrow is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
