Gravenhurst – ‘Fitzrovia’ from ‘The Ghost In Daylight’ (Warp)

It is over five years since I stopped my Tangents website. Although at the time the ending was all wrapped up in stresses and strains, in hindsight it feels like a prescient move given that in those five years the attention span of Internet readers has decayed even more rapidly than we could possibly have feared. Hastily penned blog posts, we groaned, were replacing carefully considered articles. Now who even reads blog posts?

Exactly.

In the days of Tangents my friend Kevin Pearce was often inclined to say something like “there is a new Autechre record out. It sounds very much like a new Autechre record and there is nothing wrong with that”. I paraphrase partly because I am too lazy to go and search my own archives, and partly because the past is passed and all of that. I mention this now only because I have begun to feel the same about Gravenhurst. And if I tell you that there was a new Gravenhurst record in 2012 and that it sounded very much like a new Gravenhurst record, well, you need to know what a wonderful thing that is. Fittingly too the new Gravenhurst record was on Warp. As Kevin may also have said, “it all fits”.