For the front cover of his fifth solo album for Home Normal, Wil Bolton‘s opted for something a little more unsettling than the usual kind of bucolic imagery favoured by ambient practitioners. Shot by Bolton, the grainy photo shows a building structure on the left and on the right the upper part of a dome, its distinctive shape initially suggesting it could be an observatory. However, upon learning that the recording merges synthesizers (Buchla, Nord Wave) with “environmental sounds, radio waves, and found objects” collected by him along the Suffolk coast, the interpretation shifts as the locale is home to a nuclear power station, specifically the Sizewell B nuclear reactor. That one of the seven track titles is “Reactor Dome Haze” would seem to lend further…

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