{"product_id":"francis-harris-thresholds","title":"FRANCIS HARRIS – THRESHOLDS","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitle:\u003cspan\u003e Thresholds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eArtist:\u003cspan\u003e Francis Harris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eLabel: Scissor and Thread\u003cbr\u003eGenre: \u003cspan\u003eAmbient, Electro, Experimental\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatalog number:\u003cspan\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSAT049LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFormat: 2x12\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile previous albums, most notably Leland and Minutes of Sleep (2014) as well as two albums released as one half of the duo Aris Kindt (most notably the stellar Swann and Odette from 2017) have relied on singular thematic and narrative drives that were often of a personal, collaborative, or hermetic in nature, Thresholds is an album that aspires to sonic universality and the presentation of a fully formed psychoacoustical world. That being said it is not an “album of ideas”. Inspired by the ecological and political upheavals of the present and the role of speculative thought as an avenue of global transformation Thresholds is the work of a mature artist fully in control of his powers. Both expansive and nuanced the album widens the aperture of the affective possibilities of the electronic assemblage; themes skip from one track to the next, elevating and informing each other in tangible fields of abstract figuration. The titles, while often heady, concisely allude to strategies implicit in the construction and arrangement of the works: Cut Up, within the context of the album, is exactly that. Luck Takes a Step juxtaposes stately synths with just the right touch of playful fluctuation and latent atonality. The title track itself is a knotted mass of uncertainty and propulsive beats the breakdown of which is a nervous series of fits and starts that resonate not just within the track but as the fulcrum of the entire album: the threshold of our Threshold: “…we are caught up in our own original transversals of time to the point of dissolution, and that which remains a part of the contrivance of ourselves is ultimately.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/soundcloud%253Aplaylists%253A1457260264\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scissorandthread\" title=\"Scissor and Thread\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eScissor and Thread\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scissorandthread\/sets\/francis-harris-thresholds-remixes\" title=\"Francis Harris - Thresholds Remixes\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eFrancis Harris - Thresholds Remixes\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Word and Sound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62945212629322,"sku":"2937","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/8187\/0154\/files\/cc_front_278c2d72-1263-47a4-b0f5-feee1d7ab8f4.jpg?v=1786624633","url":"https:\/\/chippychasers-recordstore.com\/products\/francis-harris-thresholds","provider":"Chippy Chasers Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}