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ARTIST
HARRIS, FRANCIS
TITLE
Thresholds
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
SCISSOR & THREAD
CATALOG #
SAT 049LP
SAT 049LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/8/2022
While previous albums, most notably
Leland
(SAT 005LP) and
Minutes Of Sleep
(SAT 015LP) as well as two albums released as one half of the duo
Aris Kindt
, (most notably the stellar
Swann And Odette
from 2017 (KDS 001LP), have relied on singular thematic and narrative drives that were often of a personal, collaborative, or hermetic in nature,
Thresholds
is an album that aspires to sonic universality and the presentation of a fully formed psychoacoustical world. That being said it is not an "album of ideas". Inspired by the ecological and political upheavals of the present and the role of speculative thought as an avenue of global transformation,
Thresholds
is the work of a mature artist fully in control of his powers. Both expansive and nuanced the album widens the aperture of the affective possibilities of the electronic assemblage; themes skip from one track to the next, elevating and informing each other in tangible fields of abstract figuration. The titles, while often heady, concisely allude to strategies implicit in the construction and arrangement of the works: "Cut Up", within the context of the album, is exactly that. "Luck Takes a Step" juxtaposes stately synths with just the right touch of playful fluctuation and latent atonality. The title track itself is a knotted mass of uncertainty and propulsive beats the breakdown of which is a nervous series of fits and starts that resonate not just within the track but as the fulcrum of the entire album: the threshold of our Threshold: "?we are caught up in our own original transversals of time to the point of dissolution, and that which remains a part of the contrivance of ourselves is ultimately that which crosses the threshold and is somehow, miraculously, reconstituted on the other side of it. Because it is via the threshold that we can best observe the conditions of experience as lived even as we cross to the other side of understanding, rejoining the ancient equilibriums of which we, in our depths, are comprised." (From the liner notes) No track overstays its welcome and with the help of standout vocalist
Eliana Glass
, and instrumentation by
Dave Harrington
(
Darkside
with
Nicolas Jaar
),
Mark Nelson
(
Pan American
),
Will Shore
,
Greg Paulus
, and
Gareth Redmond
. The result is a dizzyingly pure inward gaze that is first and foremost an album about connection. Mixed by
Phil Weinrobe
.
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