[…] “Few releases i’ve explored this year have pulled me into their orbit so completely, and so (in the best sense) puzzlingly, as Draw Agreement … An integral part of that playfulness arises from the way Coppice have taken fragments from their earlier work … and incorporated them … in entirely new contexts. … Circumpass and Compass, both short studies, conjure up similarly disorienting, sonically liminal environments. Circumpass blends tactile noises with soft electronic tones such that they become indivisible, colouring them with surges of burbling stuff, faint traces redolent of instruments, skittering sounds and low buzzes that keep the ear constantly on the move and refocusing at different levels. … By contrast, Compass, while again mixing tangible and intangible sound objects, nonetheless speaks more directly, via the emergence halfway through of a slow semblance of bassline while a strange, wiry melody meanders above. … Where Draw Agreement is at its best is in its central panel … a pair of lengthy studies that recontexualise Compass and Circumpass … . These are among the most engrossing works Coppice has ever produced. The first, Rotations in Refractor, harnesses the hugely powerful mechanical sounds of the Observatory in a diptych-like structure. … Turning in Reflectors is more collage-like, juxtaposing and superimposing elements to form a continually changing palette of click and clunk. … Equal parts research, experiment and music, Draw Agreement‘s achievement isn’t just in the brilliant, mesmerising explorations … but also in the way it makes one reflect on (and literally hear) their earlier work in a new context…” [reviewed in December] […]
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[…] “Few releases i’ve explored this year have pulled me into their orbit so completely, and so (in the best sense) puzzlingly, as Draw Agreement … An integral part of that playfulness arises from the way Coppice have taken fragments from their earlier work … and incorporated them … in entirely new contexts. … Circumpass and Compass, both short studies, conjure up similarly disorienting, sonically liminal environments. Circumpass blends tactile noises with soft electronic tones such that they become indivisible, colouring them with surges of burbling stuff, faint traces redolent of instruments, skittering sounds and low buzzes that keep the ear constantly on the move and refocusing at different levels. … By contrast, Compass, while again mixing tangible and intangible sound objects, nonetheless speaks more directly, via the emergence halfway through of a slow semblance of bassline while a strange, wiry melody meanders above. … Where Draw Agreement is at its best is in its central panel … a pair of lengthy studies that recontexualise Compass and Circumpass … . These are among the most engrossing works Coppice has ever produced. The first, Rotations in Refractor, harnesses the hugely powerful mechanical sounds of the Observatory in a diptych-like structure. … Turning in Reflectors is more collage-like, juxtaposing and superimposing elements to form a continually changing palette of click and clunk. … Equal parts research, experiment and music, Draw Agreement‘s achievement isn’t just in the brilliant, mesmerising explorations … but also in the way it makes one reflect on (and literally hear) their earlier work in a new context…” [reviewed in December] […]