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"I did really feel like -- is this a step too far?" laughs Benjamin John Power near the end of our Zoom call. Nestled among keyboards and synths in his home outside Edinburgh, the Blanck Mass composer feels as anyone might when they're about to drop an album like In Ferneaux. The LP consists of two long-form tracks ("Phase I" and "Phase II") developed from a cache of autobiographical field recordings.

A step too far will be each listener's call. Yet In Ferneaux is undoubtedly a step into new sonic spaces, new narrative structures, and longer runtimes. Tracks are nearly double anything he has done before as Blanck Mass, or as a member of Fuck Buttons, for that matter.

Fans of Power's work will be on familiar terrain as "Phase I" begins. On "Starstuff", an excerpt from the beginning of the track, a matrix of dazzling sequencers, warped vocal samples, and hard-hitting melodic techno builds to an exhilarating summit. But then the club euphoria evaporates, leaving weatherbeaten field recordings and modular drones to haunt the vacant space. Where are we exactly, and how does this square with what we've come to expect of Power?

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