{"title":"Pendant (Huerco S)","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"make-me-know-you-sweet","title":"Make Me Know You Sweet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe artist sometimes known as Huerco S. ushers a phase shift of sound on the shoegazing harmonic gauze of Make Me Know You Sweet, his immersive debut proper under the Pendant alias. In this horizontal mode he relays abstract stories from a headspace beyond the dance, placing his interests in the Romantic landscapes of JMW Turner, Robert Ashley’s avant-garde enigmas, and Indigenous North American philosophy at the service of a more expressive, oneiric sound that sub\/consciously avoids the trapfalls of ‘chillout’ ambient cliché. Across seven amorphous, texturally detailed tracks he establishes far reaching coordinates for both Pendant and the West Mineral label, which aims to release everything except commonly accepted, traditional forms of late 20th\/early 21st century dance music, while also representing the work of his inner circle of friends, producers and artists. In that sense there’s a definite feeling of “no place like home” to his new work, but that home appears altered, much in the same way The Caretaker\/Leyland Kirby deals with themes of memory and nostalgia. It’s best described as mid-ground music, as opposed to the putative background purpose of Ambient styles, or the upfront physicality of dance music. Rather, the sound here billows and unfurls with a paradoxically static chaos, occupying and lurking a space between the eyes and ears in a way that’s not necessarily comforting, and feels to question the nature and relevance of ubiquitous pastoral, new age tropes in the modern era of uncertainty and disingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"West Mineral Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50411498242379,"sku":"1027060","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7405ab85-c11d-47c6-a86a-c212c8bf9973_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726659127"},{"product_id":"to-all-sides-they-will-stretch-out-their-hands","title":"To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten just a week after 2018's iconic \u003ci\u003eMake Me Know You Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e, this surreal, tripped-out sequel from the headier alter ego of Brian Leeds (Huerco S.) is darker, dubbier and more alien than its predecessor \u0026gt;\u0026gt; over an hour of ultra immersive, brain-fluxing hybridized sounds somewhere between Chain Reaction vapourtrails and concrète dream-building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptured in one take shots during the weeks following the last album sessions in 2018’, Leeds’ second Pendant album treads a similar netherworld path, channeling a stygian dream-sick effect that effectively explores a flipside to the sunnier prairies of his Huerco S.’ works, shoring us somewhere gauzily redolent of early Wanda Group and the starkest Bellows emissions, but better defined by eerily processed vocals and Lynchian sensibilities that locate it to North America’s dis\/possessed lands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitualistic in craft and scope, the six extended tracks of \u003ci\u003eTo All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands\u003c\/i\u003e are all titled in reference to indigenous American poetry and thus take shape as elusive, dream-like projections of Leeds’ subconscious and subvocalised thoughts. With a defocussed grain and swirl that perhaps emulates the effect of intoxication thru special herbs, the music acutely suggests altered states of mind, triggering meditations on memory and process reflected by a haphazard and impromptu recording technique. Leeds is a skilled producer, and working instinctively highlights a more fallible, arresting side to his sound - recording and processing vocals on the fly to control his machines less like a conductor and more like a sculptor. When the process hits complications - the DAW failing or outboard gear glitching out - his choice to leave these moments in the final cut allows us to consider the messiness and fallibility of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeeds isn't interested in making aesthetically perfect potted ambience. His narrative is rough and expressive, just as focused on texture as it is tone or rhythm. It's a technique that suggests the heady cut 'n paste sound of musique concrète, but doesn't attempt to recreate it or position itself alongside that canon for academic gold stars. Firing his convulsing collages thru an array of effects gives his music the lively heartbeat of vintage dub, hidden under a fleshy DIY basement noise that could be traced back to Coil or Throbbing Gristle, mediating on memories with haptic strokes and a sense of inseparability between his layers of fuzz and physical actions that most beautifully speaks to a sort of interconnectedness that comes with mescaline, for example. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe’ve been spending considerable time guided by its dream logic - we strongly recommend you do the same, immersing yourself in its spongiform negative space, ruptured raptures and dank bliss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"West Mineral Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50466278113611,"sku":"1135114","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3a421f84-cd7b-4b23-8100-5c390dea02a9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727309872"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/pendant-huerco-s.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}