15 mins of beats, 15 mins of noise.
"Puddledrinker [flits] between extreme joviality and abject horror... A worry for his mind... Autoflag has crafted mood music for all sorts of physical and mental collapse." Electronic Sound, Nov 2020
The following press release was written by an AI programme called Talk to Transformer (
talktotransformer.com).
Autoflag’s second album is called Puddledrinker. I’ve been playing it constantly all week, mostly as a replacement for the regular LP. It’s a very strange album, which is why I’m giving it an extra paragraph: it is, at least from my perspective, an unusually beautiful album. I think it’s because I’ve been listening to it a lot lately, but I’m not sure.
I’ve heard the album before, and have written about the music before, but I never really listened to it very much until now, when I decided I wanted to go back to it for this review. I was listening to the album constantly as a replacement for the LP, and I think it is the most gorgeous thing I’ve heard this year. It’s like watching some kind of bizarre, psychedelic light show on loop. There’s no way to describe it, only that I felt myself getting lost in it and that the music was somehow magically in sync with the visuals, the world outside the album.
released October 16, 2020
Bleeps, beats and broken machines: Andy Vine
Mastering: Kris Ilic
Photography: Kelly Ward
Design: Andy Vine
Layout: Chris Prewett
Recorded in Chorlton and Moss Side between 2014 and 2018.