Repeated Refusals, by Matthew Mullane

Repeated Refusals

by Matthew Mullane

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t-wazoo I thought Mullane was "merely" an excellent and innovative primitive guitarist, turns out he's also a tape-manipulating electronic wizard. Parts of this album remind me of Autechre. Favorite track: Kullop.

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1.	Selv 02:03	buy track
2.	Ji 01:51	buy track
3.	Juxt Apt 03:32	buy track
4.	Only UI 02:09	buy track
5.	Kullop 04:54	buy track
6.	Freit 01:30	buy track
7.	Gutt Tu 03:28	buy track
8.	Flag, Bird, Oscillator, Rhythm 01:57	buy track
9.	Mellich 02:49	buy track
10.	Vret Nuy 03:08	buy track
11.	A Single Message 02:00	buy track

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The eleven tracks here are “repeated refusals,” pieces that in their cassette’d assembly are “re-fused” on the tape spool despite their relative differences. They refuse any type of “album” but at their core, what unites them is a steadfast, though mutated, commitment to rhythm. From a blurred syrupy delay feed, warped acid junk, kick drum slaps, hi-hat reverb trails, to the pulse of a flag in the wind. Various genre signifiers and familiar repetitions articulate the rhythm in very different ways but the tape, wound around itself like the vain mirror-obsessed, re-fuses these disparate things, repeatedly.

Vanity amplifies an ideal characteristic over others, covering paradoxes or confusing multiplicities with an aggrandized uniformity of vision. A selfie-taker too enamored with their face to see what’s lurking behind them. Or the disparate sounds layered on a piece of tape, one side touches the other in the spool, but they can never be played simultaneously. The vain tape-head can only focus on the instant like the selfie-snapper can only see their face.

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released March 22, 2018

Recorded 2016-2017 by Matthew Mullane: Analog and digital synthesizers, drum machines, filter, field recordings, computer, guitar.

Thanks to: Sonia, Dale and Philip.

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