On the back of an appearance at the murkily legendary festival The Dark Outside comes a suitably growling piece by Yutani. A musician and producer with Machines In Heaven as well as artiste in his own right, ‘The Deep Ones‘ sounds entirely like you’d hope from a track lurking towards you over the short range airwaves in a forest in deepest, darkest Galloway. For that is the USP of this most singular of late summer gatherings. Pitch your tent, tune in to the transmitter and away you go; pirate radio with added squirrels and a growing list of luminaries making fleeting, unseen visits in the night. This year included Jeff Barrow providing an unheard Portishead track alongside Plaid drifting through the ether between the trees.
All of which makes it the perfect environment for Connor Reid in his Yutani guise to ease out this dense slab of slightly scary, broodingly oppressive, entirely excellent ambience. Heard only once out there in the woods of southern Scotland, their copy was then destroyed but is offered here as a limited and exclusive download ahead of a debut live performance alongside Wozniak at the Hug and Pint, Glasgow 6th October.
Available for one month only, it’s ethereal, droning and ghostly. Half way between organically glacial and industrialised, ‘The Deep Ones‘ across all of its twelve minutes should deeply worry you. And then immediately buy the album, At The End Of The Day.
A troubling tune in the most appealingly noirish sense. There’s goings on afoot in rural, and indeed urban, Caledonia. Approach this siren call to the damned with enthusiastic caution.
