Following 2016’s Rhythm Tree Fell [concrete tapes], Preston Field Audio sees Carl Brown redeploy for another full length offering, illustrating 4 scenes in 4 corners of Preston, Lancashire.

The release is indebted to a sense of care, illustrated by the quality of collaboration throughout. Beyond features, the carefully curated additions of Jon Aveyard, Sam McLoughlin, Richard T Holmes, and Joshua Horsley demonstrate a meeting of ideas and sensitivity to Preston as a place.

PFA delivers a considered and concise portrait, with restricted instrumentation allowing for greater focus on the evolving subtleties of Aveyard and Brown’s field recordings and the city as a home.

The city is captured in a state of flux, with the listener positioned amidst a landscape midway through change. Throughout PFA, Preston-as-field is placed in measured dialogue with musical arrangements, often with a delicate ambiguity between environmental and instrumental sounds that consistently eschews cliché.

we must ask ourselves, though

what is shit

what is a hole

these are the questions

question whether the hole is one in which shit is deposited
or one whence shit is dispensed

To Shit, to hole – to hole, perchance to shit – ay, there’s the rub, for in this hole of shit what shits may come..

a hole without shit, it is a real hole ? That’s the question !