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This long-gestating box set of Scottish electronic pioneer Drew McDowall's solo work takes it's title from a technical term meaning 'plate' or 'layer' most often used in contexts either geological or anatomical Lamina. He speaks of the compiling process similarly InchDigging into my archives felt like a mix of psychoanalysis and archaeology - uncovering buried things.Inch The six CD collection includes expanded editions of his four most recent Dais LPs (Collapse, 2015; Unnatural Channel, 2017; The Third Helix, 2018; and Agalma, 2020), alongside a disc of rarities (Undulations and Aberrations) and one of live performances (Entanglement). Taken together, it presents a definitive portrait of McDowall's cryptic, questing artistry, forever seeking Inchthat sense of stepping over a threshold.InchThe bonus material in particular is revelatory, broadening both the context and complexity of it's respective full-length. InchPalisades,Inch a Collapse outtake, patiently builds a mantric throb into a rippling cascade of head-nodding cosmic noise, like some glowing shrapnel splintered off the rest of the record. InchTell Me The Name (Alt Version),Inch a reworking of the eerie opener of Unnatural Channel, embodies McDowall's goal for the compilation as Incha window into the process of iteration.Inch More emaciated and reptilian than the original mix, the track shivers and shimmers in a reverie of alien melancholy, a corrupted file of some interdimensional hymn. InchFalse Memory Demo,Inch from The Third Helix sessions, showcases the textural trial-and-error behind these compositions - a wobbly collage of seasick scrapings, sine waves, and tectonic circuitry, tested like source material in a lab. Similarly, an unreleased Agalma vault cut, InchCest,Inch captures the artist at the brink of breakthrough - a time-stretched drone traced in muffled voices and phasered haze dilates across
