{"product_id":"we-do-recover","title":"We Do Recover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Do Recover\u003c\/em\u003e, the new album from Powell and his first album proper on his own Diagonal Records, is a vitalising record of recovery and a statement of reassurance. The music is intensely emotional and lean, and forms a uniquely expressive story that opens up new ground in the artists's bizarre continuum of synthesised sound — this time triggered by experiences of grief and addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe suicide of one of his life-long friends in 2024 was a life-changing loss which eternally altered Powell's life, and consequently his music. A period of recovery followed, one accompanied by the assembling of this album from hours of music made between 2018 and 2025. \"After my friend's death I felt I went into a tailspin, but really, I was already in one,\" he says. \"I found myself unable to handle anything – my way of coping was always to run away and escape. I realised it was going to kill me, so I made some changes. It made me see the music I had been making through a different lens, one that mirrored my experience of recovery. It's not linear, it's often difficult, but there is beauty there if you look hard enough. I wanted it to be a message of hope, if only for myself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowell has existed of late in an intensive mode of creation that utilises stochastic processes (probabilistic events) and a particular sonic palette. But where previous releases – such as the many prongs of his a ƒolder project, or the hyper-synthetic Piano Music 1—7 on Editions Mego – interrogated and developed formal processes for synthesised sound, on \u003cem\u003eWe Do Recover\u003c\/em\u003e the processes are subsumed as tools for expression. What unfolds is an extended suite of minimal music that articulates and traces an intensive period of upheaval, pain, and hope; tight envelopes of sonic architecture are led astray; energies explode beyond bounds previously set. We can feel the collapse of control, and an overflowing sense of something starting anew. It is, in turn, surprising, baffling and beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":53379128328523,"sku":"R9403-1330","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_79ddbbe1-786f-43bc-8a29-8a1bcc8947d4.jpg?v=1757783353","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/we-do-recover","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}