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Patrick Conway - Loss/Silencio (ESP Institute)
Title: Loss/Silencio
Artist: Patrick Conway
Label: ESP Institute
Cat Number: ESP-CXIV
Genre: Broken Break Beat
A: Loss
B: Silencio
It’s been a long wait since 2020’s ‘Hypersocial/Safety Test’. The UK was still groggy from the pandemic and crawling out of lockdown. And of course loads of other stuff has happened, mostly bad. And I’m wondering as I listen to these two tracks if any of these events are being reflected in this release. Neither composition is sweetness and light, rather redolent of deterioration and a struggle for rebirth. That’s the impression I get listening to ‘Silencio’, a tune whose break beats feel uncertainly optimistic. ‘Loss’ plunges deeper, its panel-beating battery draped in discord and darkness. Obviously appropriate given its title. It’s the sound of suppression and misery. Don’t play within earshot of the suicidal.
