Duck into the narrow side streets of the UK coastal town of Margate and you'll come across a secondhand furniture shop called RG Scotts. On its top floor, an assortment of tables — tables that became field recordings, then programmed scatter rhythms, and eventually the foundations of the new solo album from Mike Lindsay: Supershapes (Volume 1).
It’s the first instalment in a series of records from the Mercury Prize-winning producer and mixing engineer (who’s also the co-founder of UK acid folktronica band Tunng, and one half of electronic alt-psych duo LUMP, with Laura Marling), a series that explores “the miraculous in the mundane”. Volume 1 looks widely at “everyday domestic objects, especially Tables, coffee table books, and the daily rituals that shape us, heavily focusing on the majestic in the domestic”.
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