Hopkins, Matthew P.
Blue-lit Half Breath
Matthew P. Hopkins' second full-length for Penultimate Press offers a curious and compelling listen which harnesses his deeply personal and paranoid vision into the ultimate beauty/horror object. Over the last decade Hopkins has distinguished himself as a master of multiple musical forms, including freeform concrete, improvised electronics and techno. Under his own name he has produced a most singular take on abstracted voice, feedback, field recordings and found sounds. With 'Blue-Lit Half Breath' Hopkins furthers his domestic enquiry into subconscious sounds with a series of vignettes that hover from hissing clunk, atmospheric creep to improvised piano refrains. Amongst all this Hopkins' voice appears as a shadowy narrator, delightfully disturbing the sonic play. Limited to 500 copies on 180-gram vinyl.