Time for another journey into the land where music adopts shapes and forms that are never going to be that of the three minute pop song and, duly, David A Jaycock has instead engaged mood mode to carry us through his album “Children of the Cold Ware: Phase 7”.
Much is therefore made of ambient textures and soundbites as an accompaniment to the robotic loops that are used to transport these nine musical interludes from start to finish. All that is here is carefully considered but is, in presentation, not so cold as to be regarded as simply an emulation of an intellectual, or perhaps even academic, exercise in reviving the programmed sounds of better times. It is, nonetheless, not hard to put a timestamp from the past on the melodies and formats that would mark this album as something of a reverential remembrance of a time when we all wanted to patrol the streets of downtown Miami.
Despite the almost entirely synthetic nature of the content, “Children of the Cold Ware: Phase 7” nonetheless displays a clear affection for, and an emotional connection to, a different time when hope had not yet been replaced by a good credit score and, perhaps, that is the message that David A Jaycock wishes to convey with this album.
Available on clear and orange marbled vinyl from Bandcamp.