Future Times Plankton Wat SKU: 24.00 26.00 £24.00 - £26.00 £24.00 - £26.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Thrill Jockey Released Date: 26th February 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code 1LP Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code1LP Includes Download CodeClear Future Times quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The music of Portland musician Dewey Mahood exists in constant communion with nature. From acclaimed albums with heavy-psych mainstays Eternal Tapestry to his prolific solo excursions, Mahood’s work has always been defined by his restless exploratory spirit and reverence for the environment. As Plankton Wat, his expressionist compositions exude a supernatural grace and patience, reflecting the resplendent beauty and mythical energy of the West Coast’s wild places. Piece blossoms from low-lit, porchside ambience into powerful head-trips, ushering the listener through ravines of feedback and along warm currents of synthesizer drift to peaks of lysergic bliss. Mahood’s masterful and distinct guitarwork consistently blurs the confines of the instrument, at once texturally and melodically rich. Future Times elevates Mahood’s psychedelic instrumentals to new planes. Written to the backdrop of social unrest and climate change fueled fires, Mahood lays out a sprawling cinematic and psychedelic survey of a planet in crisis that weaves a path of hope through the darkness. Recorded in the Spring of 2020, with most of the United States sheltering in place, Future Times began as a meditation on the times. With the optimism of Spring and the promise of Summer replaced by anxiety about the future, music became an important means of processing difficult emotions and connecting with the outside world. Mahood developed pieces created with musical partner Dustin Dybvig and engineer/producer Victor Nash, transmuting the expansive energy of the live improvisations into lean guitar, bass and keyboards compositions. Pieces were then passed to Dybvig and Nash who fleshed out Mahood’s initial compositions with lustrous layers of synthesizer and subtle studio effects. Future Times transforms Plantkon Wat from a purely solo project into a virtual ensemble, itself a testament to art’s power to transcend physical and social boundaries. The album’s two elliptical sides trace Mahood’s own inner journey from anxiety to optimism. Side A emerges from the still-glowing embers of west coast wildfires on “The Burning World.” Smoldering synthesizer drones heavy with the scent of burning pine, a vivid portrayal of the artist’s experience of pervasive wildfires, only later to use fire as a symbol of spiritual rebirth. “Nightfall,” a muscular re-work of a long-standing Plankton Wat piece, picks through the ashes to reveal the somber grace of “Modern Ruins.” Mahood ushers in the album’s aggressive peak on “Dark Cities,” with sharp Casio stabs and sky-clawing guitars, railing at police violence and racial injustice. Even here in the album’s darkest moments Mahood finds hope and respite in the fervor and optimism of protest, fully realized in the serene ambience of conceptual companion piece “Defund The Police”. Title track “Future Times” is another psychic turning point towards optimism and the title that would come to inform the record’s overall emotive arc. “Wind Mountain,” a Native American sacred place as well as a popular Washington hiking spot near Mahood’s Portland home, provides a space for reflection, a vantage point to look back across the album’s expanse but also out into the future heralded by the closing trumpet blasts. On Future Times Plankton Wat uses his considerable guitar prowess to deliver songs that encompass both the wild, seeking energy of free-improvisation and the deliberate arrangements of more traditional composition. With his deft and stylistically varied playing Mahood escapes psychedelic tropes and chemical fueled alterations and instead celebrates an escape into the natural world. Future Times taps into psychedelia’s counter-cultural heritage as music for protest, liberation and imagining new ways of being in this world. Artist Plankton Wat Genre Electronica Label Thrill Jockey Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code , 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Burning World Nightfall Modern Ruins Dark Cities Teenage Daydream Sanctuary Future Times Defund The Police Wind Mountain Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View JakoJako Verve EP Electronica | Mute | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 27th January 2023 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders JakoJako Verve EP £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mute SKU: 12MUTE645 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tale Of Us Endless Remixes Electronica | Deutsche Grammophon | 180g, 2LP Released 23rd February 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tale Of Us Endless Remixes £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4798701 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 23rd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bibio Hand Cranked Electronica | Warp | 1LP Released 13th November 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bibio Hand Cranked £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP289 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ben Frost Broken Spectre Electronica | The Vinyl Factory | 180g, 2LP Released 20th January 2023 £58.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Frost Broken Spectre £58.00 Genre: Electronica Label: The Vinyl Factory SKU: VF375 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chase & Status More Than A Lot (Limited Pink & Black Marbled Colour Vinyl) Electronica | RAM Records | 2LP Released 14th October 2022 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chase & Status More Than A Lot (Limited Pink & Black Marbled Colour Vinyl) £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: RAM Records SKU: 4050538827859 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yazoo Four Pieces A Yazoo Compendium Electronica | BMG Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 22nd October 2018 £75.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yazoo Four Pieces A Yazoo Compendium £75.00 Genre: Electronica Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538379761 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 22nd October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Angèle David-Guillou A Question of Angles Electronica | Village Green | 1LP Released 20th November 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Angèle David-Guillou A Question of Angles £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Village Green SKU: VGLP061 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Not Me But Us Two Electronica | Sonic Cathedral | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd March 2024 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Not Me But Us Two £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sonic Cathedral SKU: SCR280LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jasper Tygner Off Season EP Electronica | LG105 | 12", EP/Mini Album, Signed Released 15th December 2023 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jasper Tygner Off Season EP £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: LG105 SKU: TYG1 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Signed Released Date: 15th December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Red Axes One More City Electronica | Fabric Worldwide | 1LP Released 27th October 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Red Axes One More City £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Fabric Worldwide SKU: FRO012LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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