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01. Thomas Bush - Crop Classifier
02. Thomas Bush - Foregate
03. Thomas Bush - Higher Energy Entanglement
04. Thomas Bush - Saturday Night
05. Thomas Bush - Microscopic Black Hole
06. Thomas Bush - The Next 58 Years (Desert Version)
07. Thomas Bush - Eaggermearc
08. Thomas Bush - Dream of Open Plan Aeroplane
09. Thomas Bush - Radar Response to Vegetation II 8-18
ARTIST
TITLE
Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ZORN 118LP ZORN 118LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/2/2026

Edition of 400 copies on rough-sided printed sleeves with printed inner sleeve. With Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems, the ever elusive and shape-shifting Thomas Bush offers up a new album of category scrambling song craft. Since earlier solo efforts like Old And Red (2018), Preludes (2022) and The Next 60 Years (2024), Bush -- currently based in Malmö -- has traced a digressive path that has proven him capable of everything from murky wobbling dirges to uptight head-bopping laments to crystalline synth chords that hang precariously in the air over your new favorite bass line. Like its title, the album's songs/tunes/opportunities for pleasure offer the listener further evidence of a sensibility that is equal parts ambiguity and clarity. In addition to his solo work, Bush has worked with a range of collaborators in one-off configurations and longer term projects like RAP (with Guy Gormley) and cATHOLIC CHURGH (with Jon Auman). Critical responses to Bush's output have often focused on his predilection for certain folk-ish impulses and instrumentation, but, judging from releases like 2026's guld, his definition of "folk music" seems to have as much to do with A Guy Called Gerald as it does with Shirley Collins or John Martyn. For all of its diversity, what unites Bush's ever-expanding body of work is its dual commitment to experimentation and a job well done.