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Recorded by David Thomas Broughton
Mastered by Evan Hashi

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released October 29, 2013

UnAbleTo, David Thomas Broughton's first effort since 2011's Outbreeding, blends his distinctively rich baritone and folk sensibilities with cut-up dance beats and harsh noise loops, making an album completely different from anything that's come before it.

A jumble of electronic samples, feedback mishaps and manipulations, mixed with folk songs. All played into the pin mic of a Macbook, colliding on Ableton Live in haphazard and randomised arrangements. A study in seeing what happens. Loops phase, falling in and falling out, locking into ambient sprawl or cutting into manipulated noise.

The album has nine songs that flow together into one whole. It includes the single, "Problems": antiquatedfuture.bandcamp.com/track/problems

Track Listing:

A1. Untitled 280710
A2. Untitled 3
A3. Salvation
A4. Soil of War
A5. Problems
A6. Faith in Women

B1. Take the Edge Off
B2. Martha
B3. Rather Forgive

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"one of those albums which veers from the absolutely gorgeous to the aggressively discordant, but that’s what makes it great." - Song, by Toad (#4 album of 2014)

"Mood streams passing through circuitry against folk field recordings, UnAbleTo is a collection of 9 interwoven songs. Quite unlike past arrangements, this cassette is an art folk performance, a stochastic piece." - Tape Famous

"Unableto is a journey through the wasteland of the psyche...intrigue abounds." - Turntable Operator

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A cassette tape & record label of slightly-skewed pop, indie rock, lo-fi folk, oddball electronic, and soundscape wizardry.

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