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Leyden Jars' Natalie Williams ventures out again under the picoFarad name for a second tape of purgatorial electronics and dissociative chamber song that makes immediate connections to her parent group as well as expressing an obvious affinity with the psychoactive leanings of TRii's Music For Desert Reboot (good timing!) and the Altered States Tapes universe as a whole. Williams has an obvious penchant for the path less trodden, indulging various sonic detours and rabbithole transgressions that skew heavily 'Spanners' (another good thing!), but don't be entirely fooled - like with, say, Troth and that first TRjj collection on Stroom, there's also an avant pop instinct hidden behind the enveloping fog, the ghost of Trish Keenan sing-songing as the walls of space and time come tumbling down. Goods Outward (which Williams co-runs btw) has a solid record for this kind of business, though this might just be the strongest outing yet, one of those disorientating communiques that confounds and cajoules, and ultimately becomes hard to shake. I'd certainly take an LP edition of this, though the mechanical churn and hiss of tape seems like a more than appropriate home for such sounds.
FFO: Leyden Jars, TRii, Dummy Tree, Annelies Monsere, Troth, The Dengie Hundred
