Matt Shoemaker
The Sunken Plethora Consumes All
Mystery Sea CD-R

Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $16.00

Matt Shoemaker's exceptional follow-up to our Erosion of the Analogous Eye. Published as a CD-R in an edition of 130 copies.

"The gentle nature sound opening to this release from American composer Shoemaker belies the turmoil of sound that soon unfolds from the speakers. A brutal watery cascade that eventually settles into the hesitant clank and drone of the second track, The Apneist. Here his field recordings have taken on a very different feel to those of the opener as they clatter, hiss and drone away below sheets of metallic sound. The purring trepidation that opens track 3, "Hallucination Pool," soon evolves with a slow fanfare of vivid and cinematic tones before receding so as to allow the slow build gong and drone of the albums closing title track. Shoemaker's is a name I've been aware of for a little while now but this is my first opportunity to hear his music and it doesn't disappoint. He makes music that is both introspective and demonstrative in equal measures which I foresee could become quite an addictive prospect.." --Ian Holloway / wonderful wooden reasons