Subconsciousology (Lomond Campbell Remixes): Polination Splatter LP

Subconsciousology is a full reworking of Dot Allison’s 2023’s Consciousology, by producer Lomond Campbell, who, as the title suggests, has made it deeper, darker and dancier.Whereas the original album was all ornate avant-garde folk and psychedelic explorations, this new take is as hard-hitting as it is heavenly, as beat-driven as it is beautiful, and crucially it finds Dot re-embracing the electronic music with which she first made her name in One Dove.“I love that Lomond has brought a rich musicality and has created wild universes around the elements he has chosen to retain in the various songs,” adds Dot. “It reminds me of working with Andrew Weatherall in a way, where the mixes were bold and reinventive departures.“The whole concept of the original record is about interconnectivity and the electromagnetic aspects to consciousness, so the remixed version is like a rainbow diffracted from a beam of light.”Everything in this pot of gold sounds and feels at once familiar but different – from the chugging electro of ‘Unchanged’ and ‘Bleached By The Sun’, to the almost absurd, Aphex Twin-like shock of ‘220Hz’ and the closer ‘Weeping Roses’, which is twisted from a Tim Hardin-style lament into the most unlikely acid house banger.
“Dot has a real knack for creating striking melodies that hit quickly and stay with you,” says Lomond. “I tried to build different chord structures around those vocal lines, re-harmonising to take it to darker places.”
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