Bleep

Good things come to those who wait: after spending a year looking for the right plug-ins, synths and signal chains, London-based producer Guy Andrews presents his well-wrought full-length debut Our Spaces. The album also marks the experimental electronic artist’s debut on Fabric Records offshoot Houndstooth, which – after more relentless outings on Pennyroyal and polyrhythmic exercises for Hemlock – subsumes his creative development. Instead of restricting himself to clearer, one-directional aesthetics as on those previous releases, Our Spaces sees Andrews incorporate more unfamiliar elements into his electronic music pallet: his arrangement of gentle guitar melodies and cleverly distorted strings over galloping drums in the powerful single ‘In Autumns Arms’ works as an excellent example for this new approach. However – texture, having always been one of his focus points, persists as the defining element. It’s the soft distortion that runs like a golden thread through the album, yet allowing tonal nuances to filter through.