“Farewell to the Family Plot is a sonic deconstruction of the concept of peripheral space – a kind of requiem for the landscape of the crevice, fixed in generational memory as a metaphor for rest, alienation and utopian lack of productivity. Uchylak, using means characteristic of glitch, techno and the trend sometimes referred to as shitwave (an untranslatable but significantly affective term), creates a sonic narrative that balances on the border between a private archive and an electroacoustic ritual of purification.
This is not an album in the classical sense. It is a document. An ephemeral installation. A sonic ready-made composed of distortions, broken loops, micro-samples of home sounds and system signals, which – as part of a quasi-academic act of recycling – are embedded in a discontinuous rhythmic structure, reminiscent of gardening rather than a linear composition.
Formally – the works from the album can be considered as a series of glitchy soundscapes that attempt to regain meaning in the era of great resignation. On the conceptual level, this is the last farewell to an impossible place: the plot as a topos of escape, now non-existent, buried under the rubble of memory and melting plastic.
Uchylak gives no answer. Uchylak leaves a trace in the mud. For a moment”