Listen to Front & Follow's The Blow EP featuring IX Tab & Hoofus
June 2016
IX Tab (photograph Kate Frapwell)
Listen to the first in a series of collaborative releases from Manchester label Front & Follow
| Hoofus - “Begin Thee Begone” | 0:04:14 |
| Hoofus - “We Faded With The Mists” | 0:04:12 |
| Hoofus - “Despite Everything” | 0:04:48 |
| Hoofus - “Twentythree Seven” | 0:02:37 |
| Hoofus - “Navigate in The Dark” | 0:05:42 |
| Hoofus - “Swab Decks Of Black Ships” | 0:03:20 |
| Hoofus - “Embers” | 0:04:09 |
| Hoofus - “Edgeland Industries” | 0:02:58 |
| Hoofus - “Onwards Ever Always” | 0:03:33 |
| Hoofus - “Salvage and Reclaimation” | 0:02:03 |
| IX Tab & Hoofus - “Steel Dreaming” | 0:01:53 |
| IX Tab & Hoofus - “Dirty Mushroom” | 0:03:34 |
| IX Tab - “The Early Owl” | 0:03:55 |
| Hoofus & IX Tab - “The Ministry of Ontological Insecurity” | 0:05:31 |
| IX Tab - “To All Others” | 0:04:18 |
| IX Tab - “Harvest” | 0:02:41 |
| IX Tab - “The Herepath Comes Away” | 0:09:18 |
| IX Tab - “Flauter” | 0:04:40 |
| Hoofus - “The Ploughs & Machines” | 0:03:28 |
Manchester label Front & Follow (Kemper Norton, Lutine, Sone Institute, Laura Cannell) has announced the first in a series of split releases. Dubbed The Blow, volume one unites Suffolk’s Hoofus and Somerset producer IX Tab (who previously appeared on Front & Follow's double CD compilation The Outer Church, curated by The Wire's Joseph Stannard, and featured in Matthew Ingram's West Country Weird piece in The Wire 346).
According to Front & Follow's Justin Watson, “The Blow project brings two artists together to formulate a collaborative release of their own making. Each artist has a side of audio (30–45 minutes in length) to do whatever they want with. The two artists are encouraged to work together on the release, but the length and depth of this collaboration is completely up to them and agreed on a release-by-release basis – there are no set parameters, no fancy rules, no memorandum of understanding, no initiation ceremonies."
The Blow Volume 1 is released as cassette and download by Front & Follow on 8 July.
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