Four is the magic number: on Music in Continuous Motion, Bill Orcutt once again releases an album on which he played four guitars – and only four guitars – himself. It is an approach he had already pursued four years ago on »Music for Four Guitars«. In the process, punk, avant-garde, noise and post-rock fuse into a fluid sound – the album does not even last 30 minutes.
The twelve songs overflow and lock into one another. »Is Left Alone« piles up a melody that oscillates between two moments. This duality is something Orcutt, born in 1962, explores at length: repetition as a central element, repetition as a discharge of energy, repetition as principle.
When »Unfinished Not Fragile« begins with an indie riff fit for radio, after two minutes another harmony cuts across it, becoming the piece’s real momentum. In »Barely There«, something like longing even slips into one of these moments. With this album, Orcutt maps the possibilities of interior perspective. Music in Continuous Motion feels like freedom in every second – like a sound that knows no limits. A meditation in four guitars, a liberation.
