David Newlyn – Deterioration

Deterioration comes in a handmade sleeve and is limited to 100 copies…

An interrogation of the recording process in all its guises lies at the heart of David Newlyn’s new album Deterioration.

From micro cassettes, to phones, to cameras David, who is based in Durham, England, took to the outdoors while in Bruges, Belgium to capture the impact the environment and his choice of recording device would have on the sounds he produced.

The result is an extremely delicate and brooding album, full of texture and hiss as well as fleeting moments of melodic beauty.

Mastered by Wil Bolton the final mix is aptly a blend of tracks as captured on tape and digitally.

Newlyn will be a familiar name to many ambient music enthusiasts, with a host of releases to his name, having put material with Hibernate, Time Released Sound and Cotton Goods to name just a few.