serviceav press

The follow-up to 2005's debut, Where The Night Goes, this album has seven new tracks and five old ones remixed beyond recognition. With its mix of glitches, distorted grooves and moments of lilting, angular beauty, Morley and fellow Mancunian James Banbury have created what they call 'bleep hop'. They've brought the musical motifs of their debut to the fore and twisted them. Where The Night Goes was quietly ambient and beguiling, while this is more insistent, with extra trickery and a ruthless excavation of deep bass tones and disembodied piano. Their debut summoned up the ghost of Satie; this one deconstructs it. "Speak to the spectre," Morley intones on Absence, with more than a hint of irony. He's joined in this jaunt by the delicious voice of Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder), plus electronic mischief-makers such as Tuung, Italian artist Populous, and Handshake, a Brooklyn-based glitch-hopper.
written by LucyO'Brien