Vacuum Road Songs

by Second Thought

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  • Vacuum Road Songs - CD release

    CD with 8 page photo booklet. Also includes immediate download of 14-track album + bonus tracks in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

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about

Vacuum Road Songs was in the works before Purlieu had even been released, mostly recorded over a year between the autumns of 2003 and 2004. While Purlieu's concept had evolved naturally as I was recording the album, Vacuum Road Songs had a strict structure planned before I'd recorded a note, following on from the former's rural landscape into a city, journeying from the suburbs right into the heart of the metropolis, before becoming overwhelmed, disoriented, and eventually passing out. For this, I incorporated harsher, rhythmic textures, such as breakbeats on 'Borderline' and 'Rooms', and IDM-inspired glitchy beats on 'Machine', 'Fences' and 'Waterorjazz'. I also included a number of ambient pieces, and field recordings, whilst used sparsely as mere linking sections, added to the mood of the album. However, I was never happy with the initial mix of the record in 2004, and distracted by drastic changes in my life, did no more work on it until 2006, with a drastic rework of much of the album, and two entirely new tracks. The final mix was a compromise between the two eras, and much of the grimness and confusion related to the recording of the album made its way into the music itself, leaving it a starkly depressing sounding recording.

Regardless of the problems, much of the album is strong and the concept, whilst almost oppressively limiting, does tell a definite story through the music. The record was eventually released as the final project of my university degree in 2007 on the newly formed Jerky Oats Records.

credits

released 14 May 2007
Written, produced, sampled and performed by Ross Baker. Additional production on Archway by J-Fox. Environments by The Opponent Process.

Photography by Ross Baker.

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