Automatic Tasty - A Farewell To Reason

Wrong Island Communications

£12.40

Cat: COMMUNICATION7
Format: 12"
Release Date: November 2020
Genre: Electronic

A1. Ballad for a Modern Man
A2. A Happy Town
A3. Forward Progress
B1. Wake Up Dead
B2. These Days
B3. Onward Forward

Automatic Tasty departs slightly from his pastoral acid sound and picks up the microphone for a collection of melancholic pop songs entitled 'A Farewell To Reason'.

From the side-eyed sarcasm of 'A Happy Town' to the reflective urgency of 'Wake Up Dead', the album traverses landscapes of sorrow and good humour - representing a stoic acceptance of the problems of modern life and a yearning for something different.

'Something special happened with these songs - I've never had a desire to sing or anything, but the words and melodies all kind of fell out of the cosmos fully formed'. While some pieces such as 'Ballad For A Modern Man' convey a certain urban sense of loneliness and isolation, others like 'Onward Forward' are more optimistic. 'These songs are my own attempt at navigating a certain melancholy which was hanging around me at the time I think. They're very dear to me'..