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Honoured to have copies of Primitive Motion's most recent record, originally released as CD-r in 2019 and now available on cassette, a beautifully presented one in wraparound card sleeve may i add. An Australian duo comprising Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig, Primitive Motion have a decade-long history that runs across a number of very credible labels (Soft Abuse, IBBD, Bedroom Suck), though Descendants of Air shows up on Craig's own imprint. Making their own home appears an entirely appropriate pursuit for music this private sounding. The pair have in the past oscillated between noise, drone, ECM-style ambience, new age and sound collage, yet here they settle into their own kind of folk music which feels so personal and intimate it might only be communicated between the two people making it. The result is actually pretty astounding, a truly immersive and highly musical wander through fractured ambience and emotional static - there's about twenty different instruments and sounds being used to construct this sound world, albeit an often very quiet one. There's obvious kinship with Pumice, and the inscrutable introverted universes of People Skills and Maths Balance Volumes, acts you imagine to be eternally out there scratching lullabies into the void free of any imagined audience. And on final track, 'Dynamic Illusion of Life', where Selig sings, the rest of the world falls away so as to only reveal their own. This really should be on vinyl. More so, it really should be in your life. 100% vital.
