
I have rediscovered Ilyas Ahmed of late, thanks to a Gorilla vs Bear post featuring the more well-known Grouper (Liz Harris). Brad Rose's Foxy Digitalis drew me to Ahmed, a source I cannot fault for this sort of aural grease, and who's given his new album Goner full marks. Similarly, my half-finished pursuit of Grouper has been picked up again. The team-up in this case is great, a powerful antidote to the reams of material from the same framework that slides through consciousness like water off a duck's back: not sticking, [...]