Tracklist
1 | Costume | 13:33 | |
2 | New Kind Of Border | 4:19 | |
3 | Sleep Sees Her Opportunity | 11:18 | |
4 | Glassy Tenseness Of Evening | 8:04 |
»Follower« is Abrahams’ 6th album for Room 40 and showcases his continuing interest in the ambiguous spaces between music and noise; tonality and atonality; rhythm and texture. All four tracks have piano as a key factor: in one instance, high-pitched and atonal; in another, emotive yet distant as if projected on to a screen. »Follower« presents the listener with a sound world of colourful juxtapositions, rich orchestration and organically open forms.
On the opening track, bass piano meanders through a wilderness of de-tuned bells and organ swells; a strange sort of festival. Low frequency sighs evenly punctuate, like a pump or a heartbeat. It’s a procession that takes it time as it wanders the terrain, brought to a close with transcendent distortion. On track 2, muscular modal piano surfs among waves of percussion and analogue synthesisers. A buffeting travel.