more from
Beacon Sound
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Plural Not Possessive

by Methods Body

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition LP on 140g vinyl.

    Cover art by Francesca Capone.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Plural Not Possessive via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

1.
Snares 09:23
2.
Baphomet 05:37
3.
Impedimenta 00:22
4.
Torches 05:40
5.
Garden 15:14

about

Methods Body’s groundbreaking second record, Plural Not Possessive, is an opus against the algorithm—ranging from 22 seconds to 15 minutes in duration, these five tracks reveal lush ecosystems woven out of the duo’s spontaneous compositions.

John Niekrasz (drums, voice) and Luke Wyland (keys, electronics, voice) create musical and technological strategies that force them to break old habits and patterns. Extrinsic song forms and standardized meters fall away. Time becomes a physical substance sculpted to alter the listener’s emotional experience. Wyland channels his life-long stutter into a music of broken speech. There are lost languages in this record—it is haunted by artifacts the musicians can’t explain.

Over two years, Niekrasz and Wyland worked together in their forest studio, staving off darkness at a time when it wasn’t possible to be with others. Plural Not Possessive stands as a bracing evolution of the ensemble’s previous work, but fans will still recognize Methods Body’s hallmark microtonality, uncanny rhythms, world-building intricacy, and unmistakable collaborative chemistry.

"In Methods Body’s music, nothing feels fixed in place. The drums-and-electronics duo’s debut album is as slippery as the deck of a boat in a storm: Muscular rhythms in strange time signatures, microtonal prepared-piano riffs, droning feedback—they all careen back and forth, colliding, breaking into pieces. The result is a gnarled hybrid of free improv, minimalist composition, and dance music that advances in fits and starts, repetitive until it is not, knotty until it turns unexpectedly smooth." – Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork

BNSD077

credits

released June 16, 2023

Luke Wyland: Keys and electronics
John Niekrasz: Drums, percussion, and voice
Diana Oropeza: Voice on Impedimenta

Recorded in Corbett in 2022
Engineered by Luke Wyland
Mixed by Luke Wyland and Aron Sanchez
Mastered by Aron Sanchez

Cover art by Francesca Capone
Layout by ACN

Bio: Portland duo Methods Body creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk') and Luke Wyland (The Leaf Label, Hometapes, Crammed Records) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and spontaneous composition to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves. Methods Body's 2020 self-titled debut, released by Beacon Sound and New Amsterdam, has been received with critical acclaim.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Methods Body Portland, Oregon

METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk') and Luke Wyland (AU, The Leaf Label) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and meta-cognitive compositions to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves. ... more

contact / help

Contact Methods Body

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Methods Body, you may also like: