Andrew Jim Gannon feels like he’s lived multiple lives. Starting off in an indie/guitar band, then sliding into studio work, then being asked to set up a studio for an unknown client.
This led to him producing, and engineering, the 2010 Giggs album Let Em Ave It. In the early 2020s he stepped away from anonymous studio work to release music as On Man. This led to a glorious self-titled album, which led him to finally release music under his own name.
Listening to his new album Hydrate Those Folds! it’s all there – a lot of it in plain sight, but some of it hidden just below the surface.
‘Golden Kayak’ is the first great song on the album. The backing track as a pulsating drone, stuttering beats and languorous synths,…