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Always-welcome new inventions from The Dengie Hundred, who have, on their latest outing for Sagome, taken a deep dive into the archives for a 60-minute long reanimation of hours of discarded sound files and sonic ephemera amassed over many years and myriad locations, both at home and away. It's a supremely murky affair, shapeless and foggy but weighted with strange nostalgia, much like the origins of the field recordings from which it was constructed. Likened to the safeguarding of old letters and photographs, you might consider Remnants as a kind of psychogeographic survey of its creators personal history, suffused with the ghosts of once-forgotten memories and experiences, now re-rendered in the grey-scale purgatorial half-light of time-dilated sound. The results land somewhere between the psychoactive murmurings of Time Machines-era Coil, the syrupy mulch of Eyes of Amaryllis, and the backwater hauntings of Maths Balance Volumes, and is as disorientating as that might seem. It's fitting that this could have come from sources otherwise discarded but for some reason preserved, an expression of the forgotten moments that somehow led us to where we are. Memory remains a curious conceptual construct - we expect it to fail but rely on it anyway. Remnants is compelling for its exploration of such imperfect recall in a world that increasingly wants to retain everything and save nothing.
FFO: Coil, Eyes of the Amaryllis, Maths Balance Volumes, Malvern Brume, TRjj
