"I love watching bodies of water. Ripples in the swan’s wake make the image of the willow above shimmer and play; the swirl of the algae reveals the complexity of these currents; even crashing waves on the coast begin with a single drop, if you listen closely. Last year’s Sinking was all about the action, the warp and weft, the striated emerging from the smooth emerging from the striated, and so on. It was a toil, well aware of its own futility. With this album I wanted to stop squeezing the life out of the moment, but still to capture its richness. In more direct terms, I avoided meticulous editing and instead built up a hodgepodge of custom sequencing software over the course of about 18 months, recording things as I went. These tracks all came out rather effortlessly from a damp and dreary two-week span in the height of summer, after which the systems that created them collapsed into an overwrought mess. I have been describing some of this stuff as "free jungle", as in free jazz ideas applied to jungle - hopefully very apparent in the first track? but there's also impressionism in there (hence the opening sentences above), particularly with Is It Giving and to a lesser extent Trystes Unravel - that title is meant to reference this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trN06fsSRdM There's a good deal of influence from older electroacoustic music, probably most apparent in Where's The Ice Cream, with the big shepherd tones and blotchy shapes with the breaks. Lastly there is a lot owed to autechre and snd - particularly snd with their additive approach to rhythms, building up blocks of rudiments rather than subdividing bars of fixed length down into smaller chunks. I guess you could still just call it breakcore though, after all it is much faster than the last record for the most part and stuffed full of gabber kicks too, though I feel like the rhythms are too irregular for it to actually register as a super fast tempo and the kicks aren't really used to anchor the rhythm. I'm happy with the kind of floaty chaotic bouncy castle feel this gives it though." —Fiesta Soundsystem