Sandwell District – “Feed Forward” (Released 28th July 2023)

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//The Point of Departure Recording Company//

£71.99 – 3xLP, Limited Edition Vinyl Boxset

Their era-defining 2010 album ‘feed-forward’ – out on vinyl for the first time since its original pressing.

No previous Sandwell release can prepare you for Feed-Forward’s technical and emotional achievement. It is supple, sensuous and utterly widescreen. Driving, infinite-horizon techno – vectors of pure energy – slashed with concussive polyrhythms and draped in swooping strings and a haunted, melancholic musicality only glimpsed on the preceding 12”s, if it was there at all. Above all it is a powerful concentration of atmosphere, its morbid romanticism drawing subtly on influences from post-punk, industrial and the early ‘80s avant-garde and culminating in a breathtaking final third of eerie concrète and beatific synth sequences. Feed-Forward is one of the great, elegiac evocations of Berlin, minting the future but grieving and ghost-filled; the offspring of Bowie’s Low and Basic Channel.

Tracklisting:

1. Immolare (first)
2. Immolare (main)
3. Immolare (final)
4. Grey cut out
5. Hunting lodge
6. Falling the same way
7. Svar
8. Double day
9. Speed + sound (endless)
10. 7″ untitled (1)
11. 7″ untitled (2)
12. Surrender to the unknown