The skill of working in a group: remaining a group while allowing its members to change. ['aisikl] masters this challenge with every new idea and every song they write. The album Analogue Root embraces almost ten years of ['aisikl] material wrapped in a crisp and fragile icing of audible experiments and editing luminosity. While the recording sessions for this album bestride almost a year of on-and-off studio work, the result seems to capture a single moment of ['aisikl] in one weightless gesture.
The skill of working in a group is for the members to change while remaining a group. ['aisikl] as a sum of its parts is a group and part of a group and a single person, switching instruments, locations and volume in their performance. Following the humming female voice in the beginning of Vague Sketches, you can already anticipate the song in its entirety before it even started. With the core melody in place, the song itself becomes a field of experimentation for ['aisikl] as if they were not performing their own song, but covering their material every time they pick up the instruments. Nothing seems fixed but the idea of the song itself and there are always possible short cuts and detours the band is willing to take. This makes it understandable why ['aisikl] has spent an immense amount of time recording and re-recording this album before considering it "finished".
Truth is: each track had been finished even before the first recording. At the same time it will never be finished as it continues to change. And while you start humming the melody, many plausible routes the song might take open up. The opening track Rebecca Blue illustrates this phenomenon unwillingly through a delicate female choir with numerous overdubs, flying up and down the songs potential which the band is trying to grasp as they leap into the track. And it is a pleasure to hear them sidestepping their own ideas, allowing the room for constant change.
This audio CD contains nine songs, total playing time 47:55. See eight page booklet for titles, credits and details.
