Oftenchance

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About Album

Warning Light has been the collected musical journey of Drew Haddon these past ten years. From early lo-fi noise to panoramic ambient synthesizer pieces, Warning Light has evolved throughout dozens of cassettes and CDrs. Along the way, Haddon founded the DIY noise label Sleepaway Recordings and his more recent PersistentMidnight cassette label, while playing in Atlanta mutantdisco quartet Roman Photos and minimal synth project High Marks.

His current output finds Haddon working with more danceable rhythms and effected synth textures, loops of krautrock-like mantras and psychedelic post punk synthwork. Oftenchance offers a journey through sunny streaming fields and past the farthest wind swept strait, a mixtape of driving head music for epic inner trips. Haddon refers to the new sound as “nostalgic coffee kosmiche,” knowing that isn’t quite related to genre so much as it is providence.

Oftenchance was recorded and mixed by Haddon largely at a lake cabin over several months in North Georgia, and mastered by Matt Weiner of DKA Records.

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October 23, 2015

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Album Review

Intriguing drone-ish electronic music from Warning Light. This band is the project created by Atlanta's Drew Haddon who is also in the bands Roman Photos and High Marks. Oftenchance presents ten tracks that clock in at over 70 minutes. The first comparison that came to mind here was Kraftwerk. Some of these cuts are reminiscent of the early German electronic band except they are much more ambient and there are no vocals. Recorded at a lake cabin in North Georgia, these compositions were created for those with an interest in the undercurrents of modern music. Suffice to say, there are no hits here...no attempts at coming up with something catchy...and nothing that will be topping the charts anytime soon (unfortunately). Haddon describes the music on this album as "nostalgic coffee kosmiche"...which is a rather precise and succinct way of summing things up. Good background music...or just groovy stuff to set a mood if you're in the right frame of mind. Cool mind-numbing tracks include "Across Owl Creek Bridge," "Daytripping Digital," and "The Morning You Made Coffee Instead." Trippy and slightly surreal.

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So everybody knows that The Haro Straight is basically a stretch of water off Vancouver Island that separates Canada from the US, right? Cool, thought so. Quite what the connection of that location is to the song 'Past The Haro Straight' is a little difficult to gauge since it's an instrumental, and Warning Light didn't provide us with that information about their new single. Main man D Haddon lives far away in the state of Georgia, so it's not a local area either, but still, let's not get too caught up in the name. Warning Light have been making records for over a decade now and 'Past The Haro Straight' is the third single to be taken from new album 'Oftenchance'. It's a propulsive krautrock number that makes good use of analogue-sounding electronics, chopped through with affected vocal sighs that are much closer to being used as another instrument than as a voice and there certainly aren't any lyrics. What they do however, is give this retro electronic number a more organic touch so that it feels that bit warmer.

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