2017

In hindsight, 2017 along with the following EP “I Can Hear The Hiders Coughing” represent a transitional period in the discography of io audio recordings where the droning/live looping approach of the first two albums (2015, 2016) begin to give way to more complex song structures. The studio itself becomes less of a method of documenting a live performance and more of an instrument, allowing for the gradual extinction of synthesizers which in turn were replaced with layers of heavily processed guitar sitting alongside their more traditionally processed brethren. Make no mistake, 2017 did not rid itself entirely of the processes and methods founded in the albums that proceeded it.