Tracklisting:
1 – Roulette – 1x
2 – Clearing – 1x
3 – USI Panned/Resonated
4 – Wilsmere Part 1
5 – Bakehouse
6 – iamatina
7 – Wilsmere Part 2
8 – Tunnelling
9 – 7/8 Scissor Kick
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Third Space is the pseudonym of producer and Nice Setting label head Matt Sabbadini. Venturing away from the club ready sounds of 2021’s Pattern of Spring (Pure Space), Scissor Kick delivers careful introspection, experimentation, and rich conceptual development. The beatless interludes and expansive sound worlds that stuck out their heads on earlier releases are embraced in full here. It’s claustrophobic, but space is found in the right areas; tension and release to the nth degree, never becoming a trope. Percussion remains, but slowed to a crawl.
The release calls on memories of Ambarchi’s Oystered (as well as Grapes from the Estate) and the clicks and hums of Pan Sonic, but it’s the moments beyond its influences that allow Scissor Kick to shine.
The areas where intimacy is pushed through field recordings, scattered percussion (in part courtesy of R. Rebeiro), and subtle reminders of Sabbadini’s club expertise, are the moments where this record stands its own solid ground.
What was foggy red-roomed speaker stacks has given way to arctic
tundra, vast expanse, acid rain.
Lost icebergs off the arctic, hollowed out memory, an acerbic embrace.
Layer up.
Scissor Kick LP mastered by Joseph D Buchan. Artwork by Hector Clark, Layout by Justin Cantrell.
Roulette EP mastered by Joseph D Buchan, Grand River Reinterpretation mastered by Luca Sammartin. Layout by Connor Bugelli.
Promotional Photographs by Hector Clark
Writeup by Henry Rowe
