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Extremely lovely label surveying compilation that charts the first two years of Odda Recordings. If you're yet to familiarise yourself with the imprint, Trig. 1 is as good an entry point as any, serving up 60 or so minutes of both old and new music from a smattering of associated acts. Fohn, Flaer and Kirk Barley are all already well known around these parts, and collectively provide very solid first foundations on which to establish a new label - quietly ambitious, thoughtfully composed instrumental works that are equal parts pastoral beauty and subtle invention. Once we might have labeled this 'post-rock', most obviously that in Planet Records sense of the term. Now, it's more post-everything, the sound of a feeling being followed wherever it might go, new rules being shaped along the way. They contribute ten of the 13 tracks provided here, though it's also worth noting the presence of pq, a more electronically-minded IDM-adjacent act that deviates some way from what we might understand as Odda's signature sound without losing any of the shared sensibility. As such, Trig. 1 does a fine job in achieving what you'd hope for from any label compilation: establish an identity, suggest new avenues of inquiry. More fruitful years surely lie ahead.
FFO: Hood, Crescent, caroline, Quade, Tara Clerkin Trio, Memotone
