Matt Evans ‎- New Topographics (2020) FULL ALBUM

Whatever's Clever ‎- WC012 (US, 2020)
PURCHASE: thisismattevans.bandcamp.com/...
00:00 1. Full Squid
04:45 2. An Infinite Cybernetic Meadow
08:50 3. Spinning Blossoms
11:57 4. Cold Moon
16:53 5. On Dracaena
18:39 6. Data Fog
21:53 7. Ongongos
24:52 8. Jaich Maa
28:54 9. New Moon
Written, recorded and mixed by Matt Evans while in residence at Pioneer Works, December 2018
Artwork “Fluorescent Anomaly” (2014) by Devra Freelander
Additional Synths on “Jaich Maa” recorded by Elori Kramer
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Layout and Design by Benedict Kupstas
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Evans has played with underground rock bands such as Tigue, Bearthoven, and Rokenri (as well as Kid Millions’s Man Forever) but New Topographics is his first solo album. It’s an idiosyncratic exploration of percussive timbres, unusual drones and intricate rhythms, often sounding like a logical progression from the Japanese environmental music collected on Light in The Attic’s Kankyō Ongaku compilation. The album stems from Evans’s interest in hyper objects, which philosopher Timothy Morton defines as “objects that are so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend spatiotemporal specificity”.
Opener “Full Squid” establishes the vibe with a hurly-burly yet introspective scenario. Evans lays down and understands drone over which polyrhythms tinkle and blorp with Rube Goldberg illogic. It’s a kinetic and microbial wonder. The title “An Infinite Cybernetic Meadow” recalls Richard Brautigan’s poem All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (whose ironic utopianism Evans cites as influence) with its fusion of synthetic and organic elements. Insectoid blurts fidget amid a subtropical sound field in which ominous conga hits and torpid bass spar with well-timed triangle taps. A profusion of sonic otherness prevails, proving Evans to be one of the most inventive of Jon Hassell’s growing legion of adherents. “Cold Moon” and its companion piece “New Moon” generate unsettling factory floor drones similar to This Heat’s “24 Track Loop” while overlaying it with what sounds like amplified water droplets on tupperware and other unconventional effects.
Suffused with bizarrely tuned percussion and synths, Evans’s uniquely strange and beautiful tracks thus the listener into hyperreal yet phantasmal realms.
(source: Dave Segal, Wire Magainze)

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First track in and already going crazy

[@Bootrosgali]

Gotta say I love the new release uploads ,,, 80s japanese ofcourse,, but modern gems are what I look for in my own searches in electro and this is now one pretty instantly.

[@sammystank7174]

Some of these tracks are downright beautiful

[@corporeality3]

the last tracks are so beautiful

[@catcrasher711]

that first track floored me, the quality of this is insane

[@harrympharrison]

Track 2 really reminded me of Jean Tinguely's musical sculpture, Meta-Harmonie I. Very beautiful.

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Génial 🎉Thanks from France 🎉🎉

[@tristankasten-krause2661]

Love this one

[@benseretan]

me too

[@benseretan]

I am fucking ecstatic to see this music on this channel

[@orthodium]

Right up the valley!

[@stonedapesociety5628]

Wow soo great!!
Big thanks

[@moussetache1815]

Now that is what I'm talking about. Wow.

[@ohyungohyung9428]

this record is REALLY GOOD

[@bryceeden]

This album is fucking great! Keep coming back to it

[@corporeality3]

very nice

[@willyager1]

Hell yes

[@parkernicholls2310]

daaaaamn this is straight dripping, big ups

[@moussetache1815]

I felt that felt on the last track

[@gepmrk]

This is amazing.

[@sheiklucas]

luv it

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[@heresarelatedsong2417]

satisfying sounds

[@kakonis]

First track sounds like the ping of a cosmonaut playing the spoons against the side of an alien spacecraft's hull returning to Earth as soundwaves.

[@mrnessss]

this shit's on another level

[@prof_jelly]

wow

[@spencerjadenmoore]

I didn't know how to categorize this into my existing playlists, so I made a new playlist entitled "special music" just for this album :) hopefully more to come soon from The Saturn Archives you guys rock

[@_Ramen-Vac_]

instalike, like 6 sounds in lol

[@MrThomas1958]

thx

[@LL-bl8hd]

Neat

[@displaymsg]

First track is very On the Corner inspired

[@FauntleroyMontgomery]

Can you elaborate on which song/artist u r referring to ? Would like to check out

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@@FauntleroyMontgomery Miles Davis!

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@@FauntleroyMontgomery his album 'On the Corner' pretty sure the first track on that record specifically

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@@displaymsg Thankee kindly!

[@leonardo9259]

Mmmmmm THIS SHIT'S GOOD

[@forevershampoo]

Data frog 🐸

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[@crostofor]

Cool stuff :)

[@spacemonk26]

What the hell is the 4th track doing i'm listening on a mono speaker and sounds like a bug is flying into my left ear shits making me nervous, i almost swatted myself in the head yall

[@DJmaneiroo]

any recommendations for similar composers/artists?

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Shits killer got me feeling like 🥸

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Mom?

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Son

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I don't get it,i'm new to this sounds,and it is unique,like nothing i heard before. At least,i know they aren't in it for the money

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WTF?!.. (Y)

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Like asmr but really annoying.

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🗿

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