A beautiful new album from Mark, chilled out ambience and IDM, location recordings mixed with computer work and choirs, you get a real sense of place with this. The title is very apt, you feel like you’re walking somewhere, a beautiful place out in the country (with no David Koresh, promise!). If you liked the Belbury Poly album with Justin and Sharon Kraus I suspect you will love this.
I only liked some of How To Make Felt, the last album, but this is all good and feels like a step forward – and now Mark has his own studio space and new equipment, I hope that development will continue.
The first track Transmission Threshold sets up the album well, in a sort of “Sealand’ fashion like a foggy beach with distant fog horn, ropes hitting masts, windswept and lonely. This had me reaching for the download button immediately because I knew this was a Very Good Sign indeed.
Other favourites include Phase Shift which has some real Nils Frahm / Eno vibes mixed with violin? and ghostly choirs that seems to hang in time and space, Boundary Alignment with it’s celtic? drones and a beautiful piano melody reminding me of Virginia Astley or PCO.
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