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Distraction Threshold

he didnt

March 13th, 2025
7 tracks
40:26
Noise Wave
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15:00
1
Noise Wave
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15:00
2
Distraction Threshold
he didnt
5:44
3
I realise now how it is connected to my youth
he didnt
3:39
4
Shadowcaster
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6:26
5
Luminescent Medium
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4:37
6
Early 80s still life
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1:48
7
I realise now how it is connected to my youth Radio Edit
he didnt
3:12

"Distraction Threshold" is the new album by he didnt, the artist moniker for the Oxfordshire based electronic musician, guitarist and producer, out via his label drone alone records. "Distraction Threshold" follows previous he didnt records "Nothingness Manifested" (May 2024) and "Blood Red" (November 2023). "Nothingness Manifested" received glowing praise from The Quietus, Monolith Cocktail, Bandcamp Daily and airplay from Tom Ravenscroft on BBC 6Music and Kerem on Dubmission, Pittsburgh USA.
"Distraction Threshold" further establishes he didnt as one of the premium drone/noise artists on the UK scene.

"distraction"

1. a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else.
2. extreme agitation of the mind.

It is recommended to listen to this album when travelling, especially when on public transport or traversing a City

"Creating a certain gravitas that demands more from the listener, his latest album of concreted contours, ripples, movements and metallurgical sonics opens with a fifteen-minute statement of noisy concentrated filaments and machine-made purrs and propellers. Not so much industrial as a longform immersion of drones and cryptic soundscaping, there’s elements of hallowed organ from the church of the Tangerine Dream and early Kluster meeting with the sustained guitar waves of The Spacemen 3 and The Telescopes.
‘I Realise Now How It Is Connected To My Youth’ is even darker and menacing; like Jóhann Jóhannsson’s soundtrack for Mandy sharing room on the ghost ship’s bow with Coil and Svartsin. Harrowing images of supernatural psychogeography are dredged up from the recall of the artist’s past on a troubled doom mission.
A little different sonic wise, ‘Luminescent Medium’ brings in a slow deadened drum and a semblance of repurposed dreamy synth-pop.. as the Cocteau Twins meet the BoC, Cities Aviv and the Aphex Twin in a fizzled arena of helicopter-like rotor blades.. It is as hallucinogenic as it is churningly moody and serious.
he didnt continues to mine for drone-inspired gold on yet another successful atmospheric work of both the abstract and vivid." Monolith Cocktail

Credits

All sound/production by he didnt
Finalised over Autumn/Winter 2024
Some guitars/bass/voice originally recorded with Mike Bannard @Safehouse Studios, Oxfordshire
Mastered by Mike Bannard