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Jaycock returns with an imaginative side step into synth pop and experimental electronica.
Hold. Star. Return is a mixture of non-linear dreams, memory and story, this record alternates between certain periods of childhood and adulthood that resonate with the protagonistsʼ psyche. String machines, arpeggiators, bleeps and crackling soundscapes lay the foundations for these events and the subject matter is wide and bountiful. Lyrically dark but often joyous in musicality.
Subjects including displacement, family breakdown and living in the back of a Hillman Avenger Estate. Characters that glow with violence and intelligence, blood and glass. Macrobiotics, religious tendencies, gurus, politics and the effects of Thatcherism. Car crashes, Class, community and the differences in urban and rural nurture; these are all subjects visited from a deeply personal ‘dream-stateʼ perspective.
Spontaneous human combustion, dodgy wiring, and nicotine stained flock flow into stories of hitch hiking, being down and out in Paris, strong and fading friendships, loneliness and the growing realisation of mortality.
This record is drenched in the cinematic, cultural and political effects on the imagination. The extremities of the brightness of summer and the coldness of winters past.
As with Jaycockʼs other works this record is often preoccupied with place and identity or geographical opposites, namely North or South. Town or Village. Rich or poor. Conjuring up bonfire nights in an Industrial town or a post pub fight on a Sunday, observed from the bushes with the sea as soundtrack. The embers of memory both black and bright. Bloodied and sharp. Finger numbing and cracking the flags.

David A. Jaycock has released his mysterious, atmospheric and evocative music on respected underground labels such as Subexotic, Blackest Rainbow, Static Caravan and more.
He is a BBC2 folk awards nominated guitarist/composer releasing records mainly within the folk/electronic/psych genres.

‘Outstanding guitarist’ - Guardian

truly beautiful, strange and unique. **** MOJO

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