Instructions Unclear

Instructions Unclear is the second album from Reckoner.

Instructions Unclear is an album built with instruments, voice and code - under the sorrow, malaise and paranoia for the hyper-surveillance of the personal.

A follow up to the skittish and pulsating Fracking (2016), Instructions Unclear is the result of two years' worth of tinkering with a variety of sound-making objects, ranging from dusty synthesizers, broken white noise machines, tube amps interfering with underground power lines, toy pianos, repurposed DAW modules and blocks of Haskell code.

Parts of the album were developed over a series of Algroraves in NYC, while others were put together over multiple flights, late night trains and in dingy Brooklyn apartments with rude cats.

Tracklist:
1. Red Spiders Cometh
2. Supply Chain
3. Winter Fingers
4. Empire of Signs
5. An Evening Ritual
6. Allytalk (for the Rationally Insane)
7. Placards
8. Hymns for the Wallfacer

All the source code and pieces of software put together to make Instructions Unclear is available here.

Instructions Unclear was:

Written, recorded and produced by Sumanth Srinivasan
+Synth on 'Red Spiders Cometh' and 'Supply Chain' by Matthew Kaney
+Additional piano production on 'An Evening Ritual' by Warren Lain
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering
Cassettes produced by Analogue Media Technologies, Inc
Artwork by Pierre Depaz and Sumanth Srinivasan

Thanks to Warren, Pai, Tara, Burton, Ansh, Devon, Niyanth, Caleb, Jess and Dr Sicchio