Second Thought – Treatments [SLNT010]
"Second Thought is quite a schizophrenic project with multiple personalities, and my best work has always come from reacting against my own music. After completing an album of strict compositions with distinct melodies and rhythms, I felt the need to take the opposite direction and work from a more electro-acoustic perspective, going back to audio editing. A number of sound sources are given the various 'treatments' and converted into entirely different, new pieces of music. This led to the finished EP, a series of ambient drone tracks which sound distinctly different from anything I've recorded previously."
- play_circle_outline pause_circle_outline 1. Cliff Edge [03:08]
- play_circle_outline pause_circle_outline 2. Second Arrival [08:04]
- play_circle_outline pause_circle_outline 3. Rectangles [06:48]
- play_circle_outline pause_circle_outline 4. Where [03:36]
- play_circle_outline pause_circle_outline 5. Of Architecture [06:20]
15 Feb 2010
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Second Thought and Noisesurfer have worked together in the past, notably on two co-produced tracks on the first Noisesurfer album. This time they come together and each offer thirty minutes of music to form a haunting album of fuzzy dark ambience.Second Thought offers up three epic drone pieces, each setting a tone in its early moments and building slowly towards a thundering climax. Noisesurfer complements these pieces with a series of dusty shoegaze ambient works, fuzzy guitars and pianos buried beneath layers of synths and unknown sounds, forming a melancholy contrast to Second Thought's sinister first half.
Second Thought
Working for the best part of a decade on various musical projects, Second Thought is the musical voice of Ross Baker, a twenty-something producer from somewhere in the United Kingdom. The project started as a techno duo in 1999, but when founding member Dale Clarke left after a year, Ross began to deconstruct and fragment the sound with each successive recording. Second Thought's music now ranges from abstract ambient to string quartet compositions, lo-fi pop songs and lush sound collages.