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Voltage Poetry Project is a lyrical electronica undertaking from South East England-based songwriter Keith Harrison.Tickling ears from Finland to Canada since the start of the decade, Voltage Poetry Project’s output has been described as “exploring the idea of national identity through the English landscape of the 21st century” and “like Leonard Cohen trapped in a cellar with a member of Visage.” Keith sees it as “songs on synths, with decidedly lo-fi production - partly as that seems to suit my vocal style. It’s also a case that I wanted to evoke the excitement, I’d felt, of making music with a four-track cassette machine and so maybe it is no surprise the productions lean this way.”Debut album ‘Home Sounds’, released in 2024 is a celebration of human togetherness. Each song draws on happenings in places that can be reached, if travelling by train from London, via either St. Pancras or the immediately adjacent King’s Cross station. Sand dunes, funicular carriages, tenement-skirted parks and a brutalist bookshop are among the locations.Keith’s follow up album is ‘Further Verses’ bringing together songs from the ‘Western Verses’ EP of 2023, with five more compositions from varying Voltage Poetry Project eras between 2019 and 2025. All available on CD and Vinyl for the first time via monochrome motif records.The five ‘Western Verses’ songs were set in locations reachable from London by canal, road or rail and have been slightly remixed for this album.‘Antwerpeners’ was part of the 2025 EP #walktowalkstation. ‘Over Up’ is a new song, exclusive to this collection and inspired by pilgrimages to two works by the engineer Ove Arup.The final three tracks - released in original form across 2019 and 2020 - were recorded on an “in session” basis, during the summer of 2025, to mark five years since recording an actual session for the Homebrew Electronica Show podcast.
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REVIEWSFurther Verses Review at Revivalsynth.comWith Further Verses, Voltage Poetry Project delivers a quietly ambitious anthology—an album that gathers disparate moments from 2019 to 2025 and weaves them into a coherent, atmospheric narrative. It's less a compilation than a cartography of the project's evolving sonic world:
geographical, emotional, and architectural all at once.Released on CD and vinyl for the first time via monochrome motif records, the collection feels like a long-awaited solidifying of an artist who has long played in the margins between electronica, spoken word, and conceptual audio journaling.At the core of the album are the five pieces from 2023's Western Verses EP, subtly remixed to open up new textures and emphasize their sense of place. These tracks, inspired by journeys westward from London by canal, road, or rail, retain their original wandering charm-ambient pulses and melodic fragments drifting like scenery through a train window. The remixes here provide gentle refinements: clearer contours, warmer low-end, and a more pronounced sense of narrative cohesion, as though the listener is revisiting familiar landscapes at a slightly different time of day.The album then travels into newer territory with "Antwerpeners," first appearing on the 2025 EP #walktowalkstation. It's a standout cut—restless, architectural, and rhythmically knotty, reflecting the project's fascination with movement through urban space. That sense of architectural homage is furthered by "Over Up," the album's sole exclusive track, inspired by pilgrimages to two works by engineering visionary Ove Arup. Here Voltage Poetry Project leans into structural elegance: layered motifs rise and interlock like beams in a carefully balanced design, creating a rare moment of both tension and uplift.Closing the album are three earlier compositions (originating from 2019-2020) newly re-recorded "in session" during the summer of 2025. These revisitations mark five years since the artist's session for the Homebrew Electronica Show podcast, and the retrospective approach pays off. There's a welcome rawness to these versions-more air, more performance energy-which acts as a counterweight to the more refined earlier tracks. They ground the collection in a sense of lived-in history, reminding listeners how far the project's sonic palette has stretched in half a decade.Further Verses succeeds because it feels like more than a retrospective: it's a journey through place, memory, craft, and the modular self. Voltage Poetry Project has assembled past and present into a single flowing narrative—an album that rewards both long-term followers and first-time listeners with its mix of introspective ambience and conceptual curiosity. It's a quietly compelling milestone, and a fitting crystallization of the project's evolving artistry.Further verses review at etherdiver.comSharp, nicely constructed electro pop reminiscent of the Notwist. Much like that act, there’s maybe just a touch of industrial and goth mixed in – definitely caught some Legendary Pink Dots vibes here and there.The cool, almost detached vocals, blippy beats and electro timbres mesh nicely to create a fresh take on the classic sound. Some appealing songs help seal the deal. Nice stuff.
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