LUER

Over the past few years, Matt Taggart has been doing a lot more work with modular synthesizer gear, and the results here are some of my favorite, for a few reasons. First, the stereo field is in full play. This isn’t to say his previous recordings (either as Luer or PCRV) haven’t explored the stereo field, but the slow burn of the tones combining and evolving stereophonically, is for me some of his strongest. Second, and tied to Matt’s exploration of the stereo field, both of these discs, which are drone-based, are testaments to Matt’s compositional ability to let one or two slowly evolving tones linger and fill a space. One of the reasons I appreciate this so much comes from knowing Matt’s previous work as PCRV, which was more of a harsh noise style that jumped around quite a bit, as well as his live sets, which also had a lot of quick edits. I’m intrigued as to how friends change and shift as artists, and Matt’s compositional decisions here, their restraint, is wonderful.

The release also comes with a cut up collage Matt created, which listeners are encouraged to reassemble however strikes their fancy.

Edition of 30 signed and numbered copies.

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