Brooklyn-based producer Francis Harris has released a new album called Thresholds which is out now via Scissor & Thread. It features features vocals from Eliana Glass and instrumentation from Dave Harrington, Mark Nelson (Pan.American), Will Shore, Greg Paulus and Gareth Quinn Redmond.
According to the press release, is an album that aspires to sonic universality and the presentation of a fully formed psychoacoustical world. That being said, it is not an “album of ideas”. Inspired by the ecological and political upheavals of the present and the role of speculative thought as an avenue of global transformation, ‘Thresholds’ is the work of a mature artist fully in control of his powers.
Both expansive and nuanced, the album widens the aperture of the affective possibilities of the electronic assemblage; themes skip from one track to the next, elevating and informing each other in tangible fields of abstract figuration. The titles, while often heady, concisely allude to strategies implicit in the construction and arrangement of the works.
Listen below.