{"id":442493,"date":"2026-01-28T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:01:08","slug":"dialect-full-serpent-ep-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442493\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialect: Full Serpent EP | Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Past and future blur together in the slipstream of British experimentalist Andrew PM Hunt\u2019s music as Dialect<\/a>. Since he first began working under the moniker a decade ago, he\u2019s swirled together ghostly recordings of traditional instruments and ultra-glossy electronics, smudging the boundaries until it\u2019s hard to tell what\u2019s played, sampled, or synthesized\u2014a fog of memory and fantasy, of here and hereafter. He\u2019s talked about his process in near-utopian terms. \u201cMaking music,\u201d he says<\/a>, \u201cis a way of saying \u2018this is what we are\u2019 or \u2018this is what we could be.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For his latest EP, Full Serpent, he maps out his utopia with new confidence. The record is intended as something like an epilogue to his 2024 album Atlas of Green, which told the story of a musician named Green from the distant future. Press materials describe the character\u2019s journey to unearth \u201clost signals\u201d from \u201cthe sediments of technology and time.\u201d In practice, that meant something similar to his past records\u2014fragments of human voices breaking through collages of tape loops and glitchy errata, warmed by colorful sequences of alien synth work. But the story\u2014inspired by the writing of Italian philosopher Federico Campagna, as well as Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s anthropological sci-fi works\u2014provides emotional heft and narrative direction that make every moment of vaporous synthwork feel purposeful and vital.<\/p>\n

No score yet, be the first to add.<\/p>\n

Full Serpent is intended to offer more of Green\u2019s adventures in a future landscape where the past is always poking through the dust, bubbling over with color and life. The palette of this new record is quite similar: largely treated samples of recorded instruments, distant vocals, and prismatic synth programming. Some of the record\u2019s compositions are, in fact, collages of sounds and recordings initially made for its predecessor. Full Serpent literally opens with what sounds like a tape rewinding. But even across the EP\u2019s brief 18 minutes, Hunt makes clear that there are still corners in this world ripe for discovery, mysterious doorways looming in the landscape, waiting to be traversed.<\/p>\n

The pieces that emerged from this process are among Hunt\u2019s most vibrant and otherworldly. \u201cEv\u2019ry Portal Past\u201d is a joyous assemblage of chirping vocal samples, fluttering electronics, and hazy melodies like the first rays of sunshine breaking across a desert landscape. Rarely have Hunt\u2019s compositions felt so jittery and full of life as the title track, which blooms from murmuring drones into shimmering bokehs of synth programming. Burbling with the ecstatic energy of early Warp Records and the playful scrawls of \u201980s new age autodidacts, it\u2019s wide-pupiled electronic music that pulls at the edges of every melody.<\/p>\n

Even the record\u2019s shorter pieces\u2014like the delicately squiggling \u201cSky Receiver\u201d or the bubbling, barely minute-long \u201cLittle Fragment\u201d\u2014have a sense of restless motion. The motives of Hunt\u2019s main character are abstract, to say the least. Largely wordless and loosely structured, it\u2019s a bit difficult to follow the narrative, if Hunt actually envisions one. But through his buoyant compositions, Hunt expresses a sense of relentless exploration that reverberates through each slivered sample and squirming synth line. You never quite know where each piece will go, and by the time you\u2019ve caught up to his latest move, he\u2019s onto the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Past and future blur together in the slipstream of British experimentalist Andrew PM Hunt\u2019s music as Dialect. Since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12327,64,63,134,136,1672],"class_list":{"0":"post-442493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}