This is by far some of the weirdest shit I’ve heard in a long time. That isn’t to say it’s bad shit: just that it’s weird. The Surrealist collage cover should be taken as a fair indicator, although Real Colours of the Physical World is no cut ‘n’ paste mash-up, and is instead something altogether more subtle, and in its own way, far stranger.
The album is split over four sides, i.e. two pieces of vinyl, a 12” that plays at 33rpm and a 45rpm 7”. The 12” tracks are lengthy expanses of strangeness. ‘Fog of Interruption,’ a song in four movements that seeps together is distilled from a blend of new age chimes and space-age electronica – old-school, analogue style – clank and bloop over an ever-shifting backdrop. It’s certainly a soundtrack to meditate to – or to zone out or trip out to, as the time signatures are all over, the freeform cyclic squiggles accelerating and eddying before eventually slowing to a slur of droning organs like a funeral march on cocktail of acid and ketamine.
Onto ‘The Terrain of Antiquity’ on side two, and hisses and drones and murky, swampy noises slosh around in an algae-coated tank of sound... ethereal vocals emerge from the murk before tapering out into a misty oscillation... doodling fairground organs transform into interweaving electronic threads of dizzying disorientation.
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The two tracks on sides C and D (the 7”), ‘The Exploded View’ and ‘Trampoline Dream’ are somewhat different, which makes the separate record seem entirely fitting. The former is a hyperactive yet dreamy Krautrock-flavoured electro work with a kaleidoscopic shoegaze overlay and trance-inducing vocals (which also sounds really tripped out at 33rpm), while the latter follows a similar template, only this time with piston-paced motorik beats.
The cumulative effect is disorientating, almost bewildering.. but for far-outness and innovation, ‘Real Colours of the Physical World’ is definitely worth exploring.
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