SETTLE

Life Like 23 * C-40 Cassette * Edition of 30, released November 2010 
Sold out  but you can download the mp3s here.

 

Out of the blue one day my main mellow Rob Theakston (former Michigan head, relocated to Lexington KY to rule and school) send me a track and says "Hey I don't know.. maybe do something with this?", and I listen and it's amazing. Exactly what I need to hear at exactly that moment. Potentially informed by how beautiful that Justin Bieber song sounded when slowed down 4000%, Rob (performing as Settle) slows prepared guitar and computer twitches into the soft, juvenile laughter of angels, or maybe the sound of remembering that President's Day when you skipped school and got really high on over-the-counter trucker speed, with nothing to do, and nothing to say, but somehow feeling more perfect and content than you'd remembered before. The sweetest kind of ambient sounds I've heard in a minute, and exactly 15 minutes of uninterrupted love.

I asked though, "This is only one track, do you have something for the flip?" "Eh, do like a Child remix or something." So I did, taking the source material from Rob's Eno-leaning piece down the path of sadness and loss, composing a more noise-centric movement of the symphony having more in common with Kevin Drumm, Belong or MBV's fuzzy interludes than the Gas/Boards Of Canada vibe of the original. All recorded live and straight to two-track with no edits. This is a great one, and it went super quick. Anyone want dibs on a vinyl reissue, just holla!!