Gnod + MC Sissi - Inner Fucking PeaceLess than six months after Gnod rewired their sound for the umpteenth time, with the release of deliciously detailed deep listener Spot Land, theyre back with another album and a whole new approach. Inner Fucking Peace comprises eight tracks for voice and electronics varied in style but connected in feeling and recorded as a trio. Chris Haslam and Paddy Shine, the two ever present members in the Gnod lineup since their first stirrings in mid 2000s

plaintive horns and Bob Bertles’ flute

what makes this release even more pertinent for us

that people spend serious money bidding for their old 7” singles

And we thought our man in Manhattan was keepin' it real before

All Gist perhaps demonstrates more than anything the precarious balance struck between what the Elkington-Salsburg duo is exemplified by cramming to compose or remember guitar parts in James’s kitchen and what the duo could be if it was the engine of a small orchestra in a government-funded arts enclave in some Central European country … where they’d be contractually obliged to perform in matching well-tailored suits

whilst ‘Phase Patterns’ explores a similar technique albeit with a grainer electric organ

which she led with British musician Katherine Blake

which was mostly recorded at Long Pond

a doom laden tale of heroin addiction and facing ones maker in an inevitable slide towards alienation and death

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It's Evian's first full album production at his own Flying Cloud Studios

organic and technological