2 CD - 6-panel digipack with 12-page booklet
Hefty double CD collection of previously unheard material recorded by Brisbane duo Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig as Primitive Motion, an outfit that have been floating in and and out of these doors since they first opened back in 2018. Their history pre-dates ours (there's a discography that stretches right the way back to the turn of the previous decade), though the music contained here is roughly contemporaneous with WOE's early years, culled from December '17 to November '21. It's not an incidental point, since the sounds they make feel very well attuned in both sensibility and aesthetic to much of what we consider to be the best music of the past seven or so years. Present across these 24 tracks is the sense of home-recorded freeness that feels equally private and determined, a mix of kraut, drone, spacerock and electronic experimentation that at any given point recalls Idea Fire Company, Ashtray Navigations, Windy & Carl or Astral Social Club, the kind of outsider artists that rarely find a way in because they're never actually looking for it. If Lost Frequencies is outré by nature, it's equally inspiring because of it. The thinking is unmoored, the application at times loose, others simply free, which makes for quite the trip when taken as one mammoth whole - take, for example, the run of tracks from five to eight, which starts with the simply overwhelming 18 minute hypnotic beast 'Owl' and ends with the succinct, Galaxie 500-like sweet ecstasy of 'Higher'. Most likely wouldn't tie one with the other, but with Primitive Motion it feels both natural and a logical extension of their taken name (to move onwards, haphazardly but inevitably). The connection to the Discreet universe makes perfect sense, though it's also a similar spirit to that which drives, for example, Berlin's Kashual Plastik or fellow Aussies Altered State Tapes. As such, Lost Frequencies ends up functioning as a lodestar of sorts, one that doesn't so much guide the way as light up what might be possible should you be so inclined.
