Artist:
Anodized
Title:
Diarycore
Label:
About Repetition
Cat#:
AR005
Release Date:
19th November 2026
Format:
download & streaming
Tracklist:
01.
Concrete Sprites In Amber Light
02.
Etched Glass Waiting For Input
03.
Brushed Steel Holds No Course
(Swarm Intelligence Remix)
04.
Copper Drifting Towards Equilibrium
05.
Brushed Steel Holds No Course
06.
Galvanized, Scored Before The Bend
07.
Brushed Steel Holds No Course
(Tomohiko Sagae Remix)
08.
Etched Glass Waiting For Input
(Lena Willikens Remix)
Press Info:
To listen to Anodized is to listen to an archive. For “DIARYCORE”, the producer gathered field recordings from the past fifteen years, wired them together with generated vocal shards, and shaped them into a work that considers itself ambient while constantly spilling over its edges. IDM and breakbeat bring friction and forward drive, and the result is a record that is introspection and motion at once. Five tracks and three remixes make up its arc, joined by a thirty-minute video work for which Anodized visualised every track himself. Sound and image don’t run in parallel here; they are one and the same gesture.
It opens with “Concrete Sprites In Amber Light”: a forward-driving bass lays the foundation, and above it whirring spaces of field recordings and fragmented voices pile up, warm and shimmering at once. “Etched Glass Waiting For Input” picks up that momentum but is markedly harsher. Within its shrill, glassy textures and rigorous rhythms there’s a hint of industrial, and the nested reverb spaces turn sticky, as if acid were being etched into glass. Swarm Intelligence then takes on “Brushed Steel Holds No Course”, before the original has even appeared. Focusing on the female vocals and a latent UK bass, they deliver a more sensual, more stripped-back reading than the original productions.
With “Copper Drifting Toward Equilibrium”, the record begins to sway. A meandering bassline carries hallucinatory, metallic-gleaming pads before everything bores into the cool beauty of a melody shattering into crystal. “Brushed Steel Holds No Course” pushes that sway further, until the bass becomes a genuinely maritime rocking. Alongside yearning vocals, a steely melody line tries to steer the ship, carrying melancholy and the euphoria of departure within it. It is the most emotional moment of the EP. The brought-forward outro, “Galvanised, Scored Before The Bend”, lets the interlocking layers run out into the open like entropy, while light plays across the precisely folded edges of the metallic sounds.
Then it gets loud once more: Tomohiko Sagai roughs up the textures of “Brushed Steel Holds No Course” to extremes, reaching a brutality that, set against the fragile, elusive melody, performs a Heraclitean “counter-striving act”, destruction and tenderness in the same movement. The final word belongs to Lena Willikens, whose remix of “Etched Glass Waiting For Input” lets the bass nudge the fractals outward ever so gently and trace the tender, subtle moments of the sound design. After the turbulent glimpses into “DIARYCORE”, what remains is a reconciling outlook.
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