LEYLAND KIRBY – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 14 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
For the final EP Front
And Follow have really snagged a musical pioneer in the form of Leyland
Kirby. Currently operating out of
Berlin, Stockport native Kirby is famous for his various sonic stunts and
assault over the past couple of centuries in his various guises including V/Vm
and The Caretaker. Indeed Kirby in a
previous persona of V/Vm was involved in a similar project entitled “Root”
that was created by Thurston Moore.
In keeping with his
recent modern compositions, Version 14 of track 1 is suitably orchestral and
ethereal, exhibiting delicate keys and heartwrenching movements in a highly
echoed manner serving to lift the process and plateau proceedings to a better
place. The music screams darkness and
solitude, of early hours marked with loneliness and a gasping need/desire for
faraway places both physically and mentally.
The imagery is emits of the listener languishes long after the track has
gone.
From here the version
of track 2 looms heavy as Kirby stretches and extends the work longer than most
contributions in the project (second only to the expanse of BLK w/BEAR). The miniscule distortion suggests a
destructive fire down below as waves of hysteria fly past the piece bubbling
ahead of execution.
The overhaul of track
3 offers an extensive ringing and worrying call in ghostly fashion. As the remix clocks in at over ten minutes
for some reason it reminds me of the Withnail & I soundtrack and the
calming influence it had on the end credits after so much craziness occurred
before it. The music has remained
eternally bittersweet and as the cathedral of this piece plays out you can’t
help but become melancholy and expectant of glory that never comes. A heavy price comes with this work.
The final track of the
final EP of the project is an emotional work once more relying on a distant
sound and the heavy key playing of a lonesome organist. As the strained notes echo into oblivion the
listener is offered a time out to reflect on the action occurs around them and
how best it is to respond to them.
Thesaurus moment:
colossal.
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