Luke Abbott – Wysing Forest

Label: Border Community – 45BCLP
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Techno, IDM

Wysing Forest demonstrates that Luke Abbott can spectacularly defy rather than exceed expectations. If this is vegetarian music, then we can only hope that others follow suit, abandon their carnivorous instincts and embrace the mighty and varied vegetable.

From listening to the album, you can hear the “let’s just make some sounds” approach Abbott took when presiding over the Wysing Community Arts Centre sessions, and this is the joy of hardware synthesis. Put aside any notions of snobbery or pretentiousness, the fluidity of manipulating sound in real time creates music that flows and surprises, whereas the two dark bands of breakdown that permeate standard electronic fare is rapidly becoming stagnant.

1. Two Degrees
2. Amphis
3. Unfurling
4. Free Migration
5. Highrise
6. Tree Spirit
7. The Balance Of Power
8. Snippet
9. Amphis (Reprise)