Black and white cover art with a landscape scene of trees and flying birds, with the word "RIOT" in the top left and the names "ADAM WINCHESTER" and "MUUTTO" at the bottom left.
Silhouette of a forest with birds flying in the sky during sunset or sunrise.
A black vinyl record with black and white smoke-like patterns on it, placed on top of a black cover sleeve.
Black and white photograph of a cloudy sky with three birds flying, landscape with trees and hills, and text indicating it's an album cover for Riot, with Adam Winchester Muutto's name.

muutto (a quiet riot records)

Following his Interferenza cassette for Osiris Music, Berlin-based sound artist Adam Winchester returns with a new body of work that sees him embracing ever more forthright rhythms while adhering to his established lines of sonic enquiry.

While the finely sculpted tonality and artful distortion of his recent work is plain to hear throughout, Muutto is also grounded in arrangement and melody, weaving a tangible narrative that pivots around steely rhythmic architecture, nodding to his roots in club music without expressing anything explicitly ‘dancefloor.’ Even at its most physical, as on the weighted march of “Hold,” the emphasis is on atmosphere and mood, no matter how heavy the drums fall. In the distant murmurs of pads and poignant vocal threads, the bittersweet emotional backdrop to the record comes through in abundance.

words: Oliver Warwick

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