Szilard – Spokes (Palaver Music)

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Spokes is the debut by Jeremy Youngs’s Szilard project and the first release on the Palaver Music label. Youngs combines ambling electronic passages with brief excerpts of Baudelaire’s ‘Les Fleurs Du Mal’, recited by a number of readers including Aki Onda and Liam Singer. Elements of guitar and piano show up, linking Spokes with the work of countless contemporaries, but for the most part Youngs works in relatively fresh ways, creating gauzy pads and aqueous gurgles from sine tones and white noise and using speech as spare textural decoration.

‘Spokes 1111’ seems underpinned by the breathy gasps of an accordion, while the gently purring feedback and powered gloom of ‘Spokes 222’ recalls a softer Godspeed. ‘Speaking’ is a minute-long interlude of rustling choral drone, while ‘Spokes 33’ pushes the other direction, trying the patience at 15 minutes, but exploring a number of moods, from rustling wind to stretches of percussive clang and squeaking. Less an album for blissed out reverie, more a slightly perplexing journey through various states and ideas.

Joshua Meggitt

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