Richard Scott — Everything Is Always At Once

Everything Is Always At Once is the latest trip into brain warping  ‘n’ ear-melting electronic improv from UK’s Richard Scott. It’s an eight-track CD/ digital download album, which finds Scott pull ‘n’ pushing his set-up through all manner of electro sound crafting  & texturing.

The release appeared in April of this year on UK’s Discus Music. The  CD is presented in a six-panel fold-out glossy mini gate fold-this features a two-page write-up about the release & Mr Scott, as well as abstract painted collage artwork. 

Richard Scott has been actively creating solo work since the early 1990s- though he was seemingly involved to some extent with the London scene dating back to the 1980s.  To date, he’s released twenty-plus albums under his own name with take-in collabs and stand-alones, though he’s also involved in a few projects too such as Grutronic & Twinkle³.

The album has eight tracks, and these each have runtimes between four and fourteen minutes.  We open with pitter-pattering electro grain meets pitch swirling ‘n’ shifting abstractness of “Book Of Everything”. Onto the warbling circuit bubble and brooding bass unease of “The Elephant Room”. We have “A Depiction Of Creatures” which begins with swooping wines ‘n’ bays, before moving into a spaced-out and shift sonic tapestry of buzzers, pitch swoops, splutters, and hovers. There’s the haunting billow meets choppy to spindly textured dart ‘n’ fold of “Songs Of Others”.

If the idea of more warped and abstract latter-day Autechre appeals, or you enjoy more generally wacky ‘n’ bent electro improv then Everything Is Always At Once will most certainly please you.