WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON & RICHARD YOUNGS - 5 Years

5 Years is the venerable duos first release since 2001s Lammergeier. After recording and releasing nearly twenty albums between 1990 and 2001, RICHARD YOUNGS and SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH attempt an opposite approach to music making-an annual meeting to record a solitary ten-minute track. The resulting songs, each named for an intervening year, show the duo remarkably unaffected by the elapsed half-decade. Their signature mix of electronically treated percussion, ululating noise, and hand-on-the-knob tweaking continues to adapt real human" instrumental expression to musique concrete sensibilities." - VHF.