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Highly engaging psychoactive domestique concréte investigations from Laura Not and O Yuki Conjugate's Andrew Hulme, finding an ideal home in London's avant bolthole, Infant Tree. Almost Something, a telling label in itself for sound so ambiguously presented, provides two long form explorations that make sense of the pairs various involvements with visual art, in particular Hulme's work in film, conjuuring impressionistic landscapes that capture the in-flux dissoancnes of the city (which one exactly is unclear). You get the sense of moving bodies, and machines, and the clocks that measure them, but not in any kind of definable, concrete way. A sole siren is about the only identifiable sound, the rest a confluence of cuts, clicks, drones and tonal shifts that turn time on its head, the results almost psychedelic in their disorientating take on psychogeographic sound. Comparison's to both Nika Son and Mark Vernon seem fair, but it's the domestic portraiture of M. Klein and Steffan de Turck's mesmeric A New City I was most reminded of, that sense of telling the story of a place through the often disassociated sounds it makes.
