Re: EXITAB & A4 PRSNT: ROLY PORTER (UK/Subtext), ACHES (UK/SK) :: Remember, remember, the velvet November

FACT Magazine on Porter: Porter has a cinematic sound designer’s ear for blending the traditional with the alien; the staccato voice on the beautiful, all too short ‘Kaitian’ that gives way into a chamber quartet, or the soft bell-like tones that are pushed aside on ‘Corrin’ to make way for guitar feedback, atonal bass and what could be metal skronk shorn of the power chords which eventually gives way to an anthemic single chord finale. This is an astonishingly focussed and self-assured album, suggesting a composer who has spent years building his oeuvre rather than a newly solo artist dropping his debut. (...) Aftertime is certainly one of the very best, if not the best, record that you will hear all year.