Form & Feeling

Roughly a year on from Catch Up with What Party +, Nein Rodere returns to Horn of Plenty with Form & Feeling, the project’s third outing with the label and first LP of all new material: an immersion into meticulously montaged, irreverent lo-fi song writing, incorporating elements of sampling and musique concrete
Falling somewhere between works of conceptual sound art and wild experiments in bedroom songwriting – internalising an inexplicable mix of Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Don Cherry’s Organic Music, post-boarding school Earl Sweatshirt, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Terry Riley et al – as Form & Feeling unfolds, fragments of highly individualised narratives are processed through the lens of psychoanalysis, social anxiety, and mundanity of everyday encounter, cumulating as a trip into the inner workings of a singular creative mind. All this time the lyrical focus oscillates between quotidian detail and almost generalising statements, emphasizing specificity in vagueness and vice versa
Across its two sides – displaying remarkable versatility and cohesion with the diversity of their approaches – the jangle of unconventionally plucked strings, durational tones, percussive rattles, warped melodies, untraceable samples etc play against the dry delivery of Roeder’s deeply personal poetic sensibility. As such they are saturated with a sense of mood by the ominously present voids of space and further revealed by the raw and exposed means by which they were pointedly laid to tape