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Restoration

by A Taut Line

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1.
Eurasia 04:38
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2.
Tousui No Uzu 04:04
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Jorum 03:16
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4.
Like Those Held 06:17
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Gin Swab 04:26
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Sacred, Not Chic 04:32
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Snowfall on the Debris 04:33
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Rubato 02:31
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Imugem (Mountain House Mix) 05:51
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In-Joy 07:20
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Falling Again 07:43
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12.
6Aita 03:19
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about

Restoration, A Taut Line's sixth full-length album, marks a kind of rebirth and new direction from the distinct expression of the critically acclaimed conceptual sister albums Loss (2022) and Never Any Gain (2023). There’s a sense of the youthful optimism of the earliest A Taut Line EPs tucked within disintegrated elements of deep house, trip-hop, hardcore, dub techno, post-punk, post-rock, and ambient that are all deftly weaved together to construct Lyne’s now trademark disoriented fourth-world sound.

Lush, dense, humid, and packed full of emotive yet restless energy, there’s a sprawling nature to the bumpy journey Restoration takes you on. ‘In-Joy’, an upbeat mangled-VHS rendering of a Terada-esque J-house groove, sits only a few tracks after ‘Snowfall on the Debris’, a piece recorded in response to the devasting scenes of the aftermath of the Noto Peninsula earthquake, which uses traditional Japanese instrumentation intersected with icy glockenspiel droplets, a haunting choral ostinato, and heart-wrenching accordion laments. Opener ‘Eurasia’ sounds like a Vex’d and Goth-Trad collaborative production of an A Certain Ratio and His-n-Hers-era Pulp amalgamation; whereas closing number 6Aita evokes the image of a Kodak-Super-8 filmed documentary about a To Rococo Rot live tour where the bus driver was exclusively listening to a Boards of Canada remix of Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979.

Nervy and mercurial, there is plenty of room to find something to your liking within this volatile kaleidoscope of mutant hybrid sounds.

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released September 6, 2024

Written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Matt Lyne
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Photography and cover art design by Matt Lyne

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A Taut Line is the primary moniker for Bristol-born, Tokyo-based artist Matt Lyne. He runs the Diskotopia label with BD1982 and is one half of Greeen Linez, a collaboration with Cambridge-based long-term musical partner Christopher Greenberg. He also releases under several anonymous pseudonyms. ... more

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