Ian Boddy - Coil - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Revolve is the fourth collaborative project between Ian Boddy and the Norwegian guitarist Erik Wollo. Revolve is a continuous sonic journey, with the tracks joined together by slices of sonic ambience and field recordings. The combination of Boddy's Moog and modular sequencing with Wollo's ostinato guitar patterns creates sections that ebb and flow structurally with a beguiling sense of space and freedom. Beautifully ethereal textures give way to pulsing rhythmic sequencers underpinned by solid bass lines and shimmering percussion lines. Revolve is a stunning musical travelogue that cries out to be listened to as a whole album and shows the mastery both these composers have in their craft.

Renowned touch guitarist Markus Reuter is one of the stalwarts of the DiN tag. His initial collaboration with tag founder Ian Boddy was the releases Distant Rituals (DiN2). Since then he has been involved with several other DiN projects, including Zero Ohms & Bernhard WInchstheinrich. Looking to do another collaboration with Boddy, Markus composed several long soundscape improvisations over the summer of 2020. The duo realised that with the pandemic they would not be able to physically work together in the studio at the same time. Boddy took these ambient starting points and using his vintage Roland System 100M modular synthesiser began to arrange, cut up and shape these into a coherent album. The work is conceived as two long 20 minute suites.

Viagr aboys is the fourth studio album from Viagra Boys. Featuring single InchMan Made of MeatInch, the LP sees VB turn inwards, leaving the acid-laced, conspiracy-addled societal commentary of previous LP Cave World behind to journey into the acid-laced, conspiracy-addled landscape within. Absurd, intense and surprisingly tender, viagr aboys shuts out the noise to find that the important part of being alive in the big, stupid world is figuring out that the world inside of you that is equally big and stupid.