Trestle Records is pleased to announce the new record from Tout. The aptly named Fourth. Fourth ushers in a change of direction with core members Nick Downes and Jonathan Fryer composing the principle tracks as a duo in their London studio. Once these were established and recorded they both reached out with invitations to a host of collaborators, mostly friends, to complement and expand upon their foundational elements.
Fourth finds Tout delving deeper into the bands interest in contemporary classical, jazz and ambient music, whilst still retaining some of the aesthetic preoccupations of the previous records which largely explored folk and new age traditions. The result is a thoughtful and continuously exploratory textural world that is at once melodically satisfying whilst being structurally experimental. The works here are allowed time to unfold, evolve and offer frequent serendipitous moments between a range of players. The omnipresence of saxophone courtesy of Christian Berg and Martin Clarke gives the record an uncanny feeling in and out of time and contributes largely to the LP’s unclassifiable nature.
As well as an increased attention to a broader variety of acoustic instrumentation, Fourth sees Tout integrating and exploring ambient electronic and synthesised elements. Tout’s previous work has often been described by admirers as soundscapes, albeit ones that were bucolic in preoccupation and mise en scene. On Fourth the Americana vista’s are now gone.
1. I rob the rich to feed the poor
2. Which hardly is a sin
3. A widow ne'er knocked at my door
4. But what I let her in
5. So blame me not for what I've done
6. I don't deserve your curses
7. And if for any cause I'm hung
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