released November 23, 2018

"Ailie’s crude and playful creations – presented along with self-effacing artwork and track titles (very much in the weegie DIY underground tradition) – represent something of a bright new wave of electronic multi-media weirdness in the Scottish scene. Veering far-away from the ever looming dogma and smooth modernity of ever-present analogue synthesis, Ailie brings to life something resembling a stumbling, juiced-up robot. It’s parts operating and and out and out of flux, it’s legs falling over and picking itself back up again, it’s inner organs twisting, popping and flickering on and off. Using a mix of indeterminate and iterative compositional strategies, The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo recalls the fractal looped electronics of Black Dice, the tongue-in-cheek wit of early Hype Williams experiments, perhaps even the squashed synthesis of some of Russell Haswell's work. It's always refreshing to hear this sort of stuff come out of nowhere - and great to see a new label (50% Pure) on the scene delivering the goods."

- Fielding Hope (Cafe Oto, Counterflows)

"Spiky, bristling tracks in the vein of The Rebel. Like a sonic version of the way electromagnetic hypersensitivity must feel."

- Julia Barbour (MISS WORLD)

"It is like being shown that there are no rules anymore. Music is music if you want it to be. Music must be destroyed for it to be rebuilt, for it to be alive. This is one of those records which tears it up and looks at it face-on with a stern but sad look."

- Fin Clark (Still House Plants)

"Melodic chaos! Concrete-wrapped electronics blend with razor-sharp percussion on Ormston’s record. As you work your way through, rhythms unfold, and harmonies start to accompany the sledgehammer-infused compositions, creating some sort of semi-distinguishable high and low between the distorted and the clean. On the B-side, the organised cacophony makes place for more air filled polyrhythmic tracks. Here the components are separated, creating a cross-connected narrative of samples and sounds, still with the running theme of sharpness. In the whole I find an overarching nautical feeling, notions of deep sea mining and crushing waves made out of water and lead. These are steel boots walking on the bedrock. These are lullabies for the restless."

- Jens Masimov (Hill 52, Zoom)

"Weird and eerie sheets of rhythm, melody and noise interlock & constantly collapse, expand and break. The sound reminds me of spooky early electronics such as Kid Baltan or early 80s DIY freaks The Door and The Window, I genuinely love Ailie’s music and can’t wait to hear what comes next from them and the 50% Pure gang!"

- Conal Blake (Domestic Exile)


Mastered at Green Door Studio, The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. is available on digital download and limited 180g vinyl available from November 23rd (Rubadub distribution).

All work written and recorded by Ailie Ormston © 2018
Produced by Lindsey @ 50% PURE

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