Factory Floor A Wooden Box (Blast First)
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By: Charlie Hearn
Factory Floor, one of the most highly regarded of new British ‘ATP acts’, don’t pretend to be a normal band, and ‘A Wooden Box’ doesn’t pretend to be a conventional release - clocking in at over eight minutes long, it’s more of a novel than a single.
This idea’s reflected in the song’s content, which takes a great deal of time to build into something dark and beautiful. Amidst the continuous presence of a warped synth and the damp repetitive thumps of a bass drum, mysterious and haunting samples cut in and out before a gravely male vocal joins the fray. At about the midway point something changes, and a female voice intertwines with the rich mix of influences, knocking the mix off kilter.
The music becomes more random and more frantic, conveying a worrying feeling of losing control, until at six and a half minutes it all becomes too much and the original synth blurs into a swirl of fuzz. It concludes with a sharp fade into oblivion... and leaves nobody any the wiser as to what exactly has just gone on here.
Factory Floor - A Wooden Box by All Tomorrows Parties
Artists in this article: Factory Floor
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