James Ruskin’s venerable Blueprint has taken its time getting to forty, but this release from Samuel Kerridge should go some way to pacify those who wish it were more prolific. Kerridge, whose previous releases on Horizontal Ground and D/N (Downwards), have marked him out as an emerging and distinctive sonic alchemist drops the bpms to create four noise-drenched exercises in textured distortion, which could just as easily be the stuff of nightmares as dissonant eloquence.
The four tracks here are united in their approach to sound, which is uncompromising but beguiling. Rhythm, albeit that occasionally slowed down to a slow march, is mostly present, in spite of the overriding preoccupation with occasional discord and the juxtaposition of opposites. ‘Paint It Black Reprise’, however, ditches the percussive vertebrae of the original and becomes a resonant primal ooze. Compared to this, ‘Operation Neptune’ sounds quite conventional, but its mournful siren-like drones, as well as the intermittent, explosive punctuation combine to construct a loop from hell. ‘Surrender To The Void’ is the most industrial-sounding of the quartet, its portentous, whizzing synth and ominous break beat aligned with an all-important disembodied voice.
The sonic makeup of this release has its roots in the ‘Eraserhead’ soundtrack as much as anything else. And. although it is a walk through an environmentally degraded world, it is also an ultimately uplifting listen.
Samuel Kerridge - Deficit of Wonder EP on Blueprint
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Our rating: 7/10
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