Dialect: Full Serpent EP

"Past and future blur together in the slipstream of British experimentalist Andrew PM Hunt's music as Dialect. Since he first began working under the moniker a decade ago, he's swirled together ghostly recordings of traditional instruments and ultra-glossy electronics, smudging the boundaries until it's hard to tell what's played, sampled, or synthesized-a fog of memory and fantasy, of here and hereafter. He's talked about his process in near-utopian terms."

"Full Serpent is intended to offer more of Green's adventures in a future landscape where the past is always poking through the dust, bubbling over with color and life. The palette of this new record is quite similar: largely treated samples of recorded instruments, distant vocals, and prismatic synth programming. Some of the record's compositions are, in fact, collages of sounds and recordings initially made for its predecessor. Full Serpent literally opens with what sounds like a tape rewinding."

"For his latest EP, Full Serpent, he maps out his utopia with new confidence. The record is intended as something like an epilogue to his 2024 album Atlas of Green, which told the story of a musician named Green from the distant future. Press materials describe the character's journey to unearth "lost signals" from "the sediments of technology and time." In practice, that meant something similar to his past records-fragments of human voices breaking through collages of tape loops and glitchy errata,"

Andrew PM Hunt, performing as Dialect, blends ghostly recordings of traditional instruments with ultra-glossy electronics to blur the line between played, sampled, and synthesized sounds. Full Serpent functions as an epilogue to the 2024 album Atlas of Green and continues the narrative of a future musician named Green unearthing "lost signals" from the sediments of technology and time. The EP assembles treated instrument samples, distant vocals, tape-loop collages, and glitchy artifacts alongside prismatic synth programming. Influences from Federico Campagna and Ursula K. Le Guin shape a utopian, emotionally resonant framework that gives the vaporous textures purposeful direction.

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