Body Lapse: Vinyl LP

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Label: Planet Mu
Release Date: 12th September

I've written some dribble on here before but hear me out on this one, I'm about to sound like the most pretentious 'makes statements with their eyes closed' music person when I say - you don't really listen to this record rather, you feel it moving through and within your body. Pop that lead track 'My Little Loophole' on and get your speaker turned up and tell me, you're not feeling each pulsating electronic rhythm and bleep stirring you up and the soft seductive vocal massaging the inside of your brain? 

This exciting new collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor is a highly kinetic and playful endeavour. Body-centric vocal explorations merge with intricate rhythmic systems forming a deliciously disorientating, hypersurreal space of semantic modulations, concrete poetry, cut-up beats and mimicked samples. Their sound is singular and tactile: dissociative dance music that reassembles contorting vocal lines and knotting biomechanics in an explorative network of unstable forms. It’s a blur of bodily fragility and ecstatic disruption, where swells of meaning rise and fall through clouds of synthetic buzz, fleeting breath, and stream-of-consciousness imagery.The duo first performed together when Counterflows Festival paired them for a new commission at the historic Arches venue in 2023. Glasgow-born, Stockholm-based vocalist and performance artist Cara Tolmie brought her hypnotic vocal technique, Internal Singing — an intimate practice using breath, movement, and touch that explores the subtle binds between voice and body in an unsettling, engrossing sonic space. Treanor’s richly innovative work provided a compounding counterpart: radical, rave-infused structures that bent and contorted around Tolmie’s incantation.Growing out of a series of charged, improvisational performances, Body Lapse was recorded between Stockholm and Rotherham in 2024. Echoes of their live energy run throughout — a voice shaking through the body, responding to touch and physical modulation, translating performance into something tactile and immediate. Body Lapse marks their debut release together, it conjures a sound of unsettling beauty and frictional intensity — a playful, physical mesh of computer music, voice, and speculative storytelling. In this gnawing, dreamlike space, breath and body become sites of both connection and disruption, sparking thrilling encounters with the unexpected, the playful, and the decisively weird

Tracklisting:
Side A
1. As The Unified Field Bursts
2. Incongruous Diva
3. Out Of
4. Inuti-I
5. Sleep Guessings
Side B:
1. Ereh Ma I
2. Lumpy
3. My Little Loophole
4. Endless Not