/Art rock, Leftfield, Avant-prog, RIO, Singer-songwriter,
Electronic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/
Comment: it is being always interesting to
discover Exeter, UK-based musician Peter-David Smith aka Speculativism`s
progressions in different directions on his many, approximately 15 albums. One
is sure clearly conventionality is not on his menu. His issues are being quite
lengthy, for instance, the recent issue extends beyond 80 minutes. Roughly it
could be said he likes to experiment with lyrics and sounds, at times those lyrics
and pun are truly funny and surreal, the sounds light up tremendous swaying in
Smith`s soundscape. Indeed, mostly it is avant-rock/progressive rock oriented
madness which is filled with many changes in structure and soundscape (all
those paradiddling keyboard sounds coming in and then leaving out of focus) at
times it is more restrained (yet uncanny and even ghastly) thereby being more
closely related to singer-songwriter-like approach though it is contingent. Emotionally the whole is
amusing, of course, because all will be changing and winding throughout the
course. In a nutshell, it could be concluded it is a solid interface between
comedy and dada art, art/progressive rock, electronic music, and something else
additionally which is elusive enough to subject it to my words and sentences.