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Carol Service Heard Through A Thicket Of Steel Wool

by Hardworking Families

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A Christmas single for those who may not be able to access their normal traditions and rituals this year. The long train journeys, the hometown pub catch-ups, the family meals, the midnight mass, all or none of the above.

This familiar piece of communal song is obscured here by layers of radio broadcast, 'live' FX mangling and distanced post-processing. Maybe some degree of comfort can still make it through the tangle.

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released December 21, 2020

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Hardworking Families Brighton, UK

"Abstracted sauces, performance as code, gristle, electronic manipulation and tape glitch." - Radio Free Midwich.

Hardworking Families is Tom Bench’s solo sound-play interrogation. Working with no-input mixer feedback, tapes, objects, and occasionally instruments, intuitive textural adventures will coax your ears with visceral flavours.
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