310’s ninth full length album Ruminant is a continuous mix of selected tracks from their EP’s DoPING CHIEF and 20/21, along with three new tracks; Zhinsinura, Seven Hands and Ruminant. 310 have been honing the sound for this new full length over the past few years, allowing new ideas to develop with an ease and flow of pace.

Ruminant is a revisitation to the beat stylings of their Akai MPC2000 days on tracks like “Leave To Remain” with its interlocking time signatures and downtempo dub, and pushing their own envelope of weaved samples and found sounds on “Subway Knives”  Electric bass and Rhodes piano blend deep within the wash of sound.  A meditation on the past while being firmly grounded in the present, tying together in one Now.

The cover photo was  taken in the Lake District in Northwest England in 1999. The Castlerigg Stone Circle sits just off camera. Dierker and Donovan were drawn to the site then and now.

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