Paul Prudence - Ficciones (2019)

'Ficciones is a potpourri of colliding concepts, the digital and organic sources bouncing off with each other in a neutrally twisted realm. Field recordings adhere to manipulated synthesis, triggering images of falling water, twisting metal, and cosmic bourne storms. There is an extraterrestrial element to these landscapes, and just as you manage to hold on to one revealed universe, another one bubbles up fast from inside. Fans of modular sound design and acoustic spacescapes (those missing earlier Autechre‘s concept and flow) will undoubtedly appreciate all of the buzzing, warping, and chiming, that consummates in robotic and analogue, dead and alive.' - Headphone Commute

'Ficciones, the new album by Paul Prudence is an (almost) quiet wonder of Enoesque summits; laced through with lush, substantive, bodily Borgesian coils. Brilliant ambient baroque' - LapsusLima

'Weaving together the soft accents of field-recordings, microscopic sound fragments and modular synthesis, the pieces fluctuate between the machine-like and the organic, and sometimes combine the two to create a complex sonic ecology. With forensic precision modular rhythmic collages have been grafted onto subtle melodic phrases; stuttering percussive structures are held in orbit by elliptical sinusoidal drones. The pieces are seen as being audio-visual experiences without the visual part. The tracks create a sense of motion in space, kinetic activity cue the existence of teeming entities.'