Helm - To An End

"'To An End' is the debut solo album from London, UK's Luke Younger (also known as 1/2 of Birds of Delay). The album is comprised of an extremely complex network of intricate layers and mixed sounds. A haunting composition of field recordings, tape loops, percussion, and electronics (among other things) create an extremely tense and daunting audio tapestry which leaves the listener pondering the intense meaning of the sounds chosen. Repeated themes arrive suddenly and then shift into new passages seamlessly creating a surreal environment of confusion and alienation. All of the carefully mixed and slow morphing passages are balanced by surgical editing technique (while leaving the tired "cut-up" techniques behind.) While the albums first piece has many properties of concrete and sound poetry reminiscent of the work of Charles Amirkhanian or Bengt Hambraeus, it does not confine itself to these genre of these works. On the albums flipside, field recordings and mysterious tape audio swell in and out of the mix, gone before you can fully realize it was ever there. Soft washes of white noise float delicately on the surface of an infinite curious hum. A sense of unease simultaneously locks in with an aura of beauty, both worlds comprimising to share a space with each other in an extended phantom tone. The long excursion into a wash of calm tone could float away forever, its as profound as the discovery of pure silence or the sound of a massive skyscraper collapsing to the ground. It's not about it's size, it's about the overbearing weight, which this album carries loads of." - John Elliott (Emeralds).

Recorded and mixed by Luke Younger and John Hannon at No Recording Studio. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, and limited to 300 copies in LP sleeves designed by Bill Kouligas.

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