![]() ![]() Five times, or more, I trancily tap back to hear “A3” before feeling able to move on. The whole track summons the sensuality of hot springs, all flushed cheeks and droopy eyes. Super airy voices, more figmentary in the bookends, whisper close in “A2” like blown kisses. The sandwiched tracks are more slow and silky, deceptive, arousing, even erotic. By the time “B4” spins around, we’re reminded that these are songs to urge deep listening and also bodily movement, whether that’s at a swift or snail’s pace. Things feel totally alive, lived, polluted, spontaneous, intrusive, visceral like that. ![]() That’s what’s evoked: a sonic situation of hearing and registering and vibrational re/occurrence day-to-day in surround. Some could be yours, like a clicking jaw some could be kind of yours, like water moving through the cells of your house plants some are not yours, like an overheard phone conversation on the street some are perpetually but barely there, like cars crawling on a not-too-distant highway some are actual figments, like the understanding that there are worms turning through the soil in the park at the end of my block and in others across the world. Some sounds feel dramatically close some, almost fantastically, far away. “A1” starts suddenly with a fizzy beat and those sound-systems’ other spawn dimensionally arranged to delineate points in a huge, sculptural space. The collection’s more uptempo tracks - the aforementioned, very giddy “A1” and the lush, loosey-goosey closer “B4” - both bookend and offer tools to better experience the rest. 2 presents another group of these mysterious “software installations” for our pleasure, within their necessary temporal frames, across their range. The eight five-minute-long songs on this album’s self-titled precursor, released via Peak Oil in 2018, were made by what’s described as “a set of software strategies… captures and edits of various nonlinear sound-systems, shifting conditions, and reactions to internal changes.” Vol. 2, sates cool and smooth in its neat, five-minute-long container. That’s opener “A1.” This track, like the seven others on Vol. Five minutes downed like a large glass of incredibly crisp water.
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