This is the first time that Aerial M's one and only John Peel session, that was recorded on 3.3.1998 before being aired on the John Peel show that went out on 2.4.98. has been released. That would have been the only time I heard this previously. Listen to how Dave Pajo, Cassie Berman, Tim Furnish and Tony Bailey spent their time at Maida Vale studios.
The session opens with Skrag Theme taking the listener on a 13-minute journey, gentle prog explorations, guitars eventually become more insistent before dissolving, dissipating sounds welcomed to brew, within a maelstrom bowed or unbowed, extruded pulsations saturated undertow.
Vivea is post rock permutations evolving revolving, calmly reflective reiterations, sundered solipsistically brightening up.
The third and final song on the session is Safeless a 12-minute suite of slow taut builds, showing just how unsafe they thought the world was back in 1998, if this was recorded in 2024 it would have a far more paranoid dystopian edge, this has a despairing feel, yet not like all hope has been lost. Building towards myriad precipices, never quite peaking.
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