This one is a bit of a deep cut. Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis is a Madchester-meets-Shoegaze album by the band Chapterhouse called Blood Music from 1993 remixed out of all recognition by Global Communication, aka Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard. In some ways it feels like a rehearsal for their beatless ambient house genre-defining album 76:14.
None of the tracks is shorter than 10 minutes. Snippets of vocals from Blood Music emerge through the washes of synths, but nothing jumps out and interrupts my writing flow. Mark Pritchard’s latest work includes Tall Tales, a collaboration with Thom Yorke. My favourite of Pritchards’s releases in the last decade is The Four Worlds, which is a bit harder to write to.
