Rhythm is in all of us; literally. Our heartbeat is the constant thud that powers us, walking is a beat, everyone is an air drummer when the right song comes on, and at the club when the drop happens and the beat kicks back in we lose our minds. No surprise then that when I started listening to Sarah Heneghan’s new album Power Out I found myself playing my the desk pretending I was keeping up with Sarah (not a chance).
Power Out is a mixture of drum performances that are a capella on tracks such as ‘Heckler’, ‘Wrist Flick’ (see video below) and ‘Improv’s #1, #2’, & #3, as well as full of haunting sound washes that drift like mist while tumbling drums trigger electronic squelches and tuned percussion on tracks like ‘G.O.T Y.O.U’.
‘Sleep Until Something Happens Again’ is a hypnotic kaleidoscope that has bursts of drums sitting between, and moving around, a detuned bell chiming throughout. ‘Grass Will Grow All Over Us’, and the final track ‘Petrichor’, both paint cinematic landscapes, the former from pulses and skittering drums that morph into a soft collage of jazz and trip hop, and the latter from a pastoral, almost ‘Jerusalem’-like feel from ascending organ sounds that are being held aloft by the lighter than air drumming.
Power Out demonstrates fire and finesse in equal measure so if you love rhythm then set up your air drums and try and keep up with Sarah Heneghan (good luck).
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Review by Paul F Cook
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