Boomkat “A new high water mark of Luke J Murray’s increasingly distinctive oeuvre, locating him in the brackish waters of hauntological rumination with Travis Elborough, an award-winning author filed by The Guardian as “one of the country’s finest pop culture historians
Man o’ many monikers, Luke Murray aka Stonecirclesampler (Iceman Junglist Kru, Grimescapes, Superior London Pulp etc. etc.) accompanies Elborough’s time and space travelling narration with a murky bed of memory-dredged, hypnagogic ambience. The results surely resemble the suppositions of Audint, and related Kode9 and Mark Fisher & Justin Barton works in this arena for Hyperdub’s Flatlines series, or the type of uchronic and anachronistic audities conjured on Mordant Music, or even the deep topography of Iain Sinclair et al.
Elborough’s neatly enunciated narration is contextually dense with references that will reward repeat plus in order to unpick, whilst Murray reserves himself to an evocative, symbiotic presence, lurking above and below the words with a palette of washed out drones, noctilucent vapours and curdled synth harmonics that lap at the ears, pulling deeper into the work, not distracting from it in the first half, before following his instincts deep into the recesses of memory on an instrumental B-side threaded with scant ether voices reminding us to Coil as much as Moon Wiring Club.
Few others are tapping into or evoking the uncanny eldritch psych quite like him at the moment, when populism and accelerationism are raging in the popular consciousness – and this slow, ponderous piece could hardly be better timed for the onset of winter and receding into your own world.”
The Wire “The London based producer, often preoccupied with the hidden, the haunted and the esoteric, is well-matched with Elborough and his eye for uncovering the overlooked”
Bleep “RIYL Jenga”
Moonbuilding Zine “a spooky shudder of a piece, like the soundtrack to one of those dreams that wakes you up with a start”
Simon Reynolds Hauntology Parish Newsletter “a spectral electronic backdrop, starting with a wonderful dilation of the old HTV ident theme into a spacy psychedelic drone”
Travis Elborough 