Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Building a New Town EP

It’s been a welcome break over the past few weeks, but it’s time to get back into things — moving forward and continuing to comb through the scattered ends of 2023. This one falls into the latter category. Under the rather burdensome moniker Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, UK multi-instrumentalist Gordon Chapman-Fox, has been carving out a niche with foreboding, tense electronic instrumentals that dig into broken promises in infrastructure. Falling just outside of the hauntology and hallucination of the Ghost Box contingent, this year’s brutal imaginary soundtrack, The Nation’s Most Central Location fell nicely in line with Chapman-Fox’s world of sound. He followed the release up in August with a bit of a swerve, though. Building a New Town, is less invested in anxious environments and scraped-concrete beats. Leaning into a love of Tangerine Dream, the compositions here pair lacquered lines of acoustic guitar with a slight cosmic twist of synths, lofting the listener into the place where the horizon meets the sky. It’s unusually hopeful for Chapman-Fox, a welcome break from the darkness of his usual works. The EP is out now from Castles In Space. If you’ve missed out on the lighter side of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, It’s a nice time to catch up.

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