Recorded at motorway lay-bys across the UK, Schaefer captures the strange suspended quality of those roadside non-places — idling engines, distant traffic blur, the peculiar quiet of journeys interrupted. The material is treated with his characteristic turntable manipulation and tape processing, softening field recordings into something tender rather than documentary. It sits at an unexpected intersection of concrete sound and genuine warmth, functioning almost like a bedtime record for insomniacs who find comfort in the hum of infrastructure. Mundane geography becomes oddly intimate here.
appears in: sleep