Electro-Acoustic Works 20:20 is out now via Dawn Chorus Recording Company.
Last March, just before lockdown, Jack Hues was driving down the A2 between London and his home town of Canterbury, and noticed one of the motorway bridges above him had been sprayed with the words ‘Frootbat Reset’. On the same drive a few days later, he saw ‘Frootbat’ had been sprayed on another bridge, and then another. The cogs whirred in the Wang Chung star’s mindSurely this was a reference to the animal purportedly at the root of the pandemic that put the world on pause? “Well, that’s what I thought,” Hues tells Prog with a smile. “It’s probably just a graffiti artist’s tag [signature], but I saw it as a really succinct summary of this whole ‘reset’. How better can you put it? It’s like shutting the whole world computer down and starting it up again.”