Bleep

Specialists in limited run, quietly apocalyptic electronic cassettes Obsolete Future welcome Bill Converse to the fold with the dense, matte abyss of Life / Time. Converse opens up with ‘Furnace’, a field recording drone of watery, mechanistic menace, before hurtling into the prickly electronic jibes of ‘Porcupine’. The release’s centrepiece ‘Blood of the Ocean’ is unexpectedly wide-eyed, a vast, 20-minute odyssey through oceanic textures and searching synthesised leads.