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Andy Human and Sam Lefebvre began writing and recording Desire Choir in 2021. They biked to a West Oakland rehearsal space and tracked drums and bass to an old tape machine. It was an accretive process, initially disoriented from live performance. Influenced by a Inchcommunist interpretation of collective musicInch and the variable post-punk and dub combinations of the On-U Sound tag, as they write in a pamphlet companion to the album, Non Plus Temps emerged as more singers and players sought affinity amid the pandemic-era social isolation and unrest.The result joins various instruments (sax and saz, synths and bells) and production techniques in a sound like the Inchbroken headlight skyInch mentioned in InchEndless Jetty Night,Inch the nervy, Residents-like meditation on coastal subduction zones closing the A-side. Album opener InchContinuous Hinge,Inch with vocalist Amber Sermeno, is a backbeat beaded with Stanley Martinez's electric viola, while InchFacts Sound Like MythsInch introduces pinballing dub paranoia. InchReversible Mesh,Inch they write, suggests a Inchself-conscious Eno affinity surrendering to Chrome.Inch Album Tracks 1. Continuous Hinge 2. Terminal Affect 3. Facts Sounds Like Myths 4. Five Birds Named California 5. New Way to Wave (Goodbye) 6. Endless Jetty Night 7. Reversible Mesh 8. Warm Launderette 9. Is It All at Once 10. Book (Dub) 11. Laika the Mongrel
