Abbey Road Live! is nothing like The Beatles album of yore. This is a techno record, and a frenetically haywire one at that. The rambunctious experimental electronic three track spread from The May is a bewilderingly audacious and brash piece of bonkers robotic sounding elements that leave you floored, confused, and on an energy high that’s a bit indescribable . There’s a clear fascination with voices and obscure sounds and samples that Nigel Firth enjoys bringing to life. An almost childlike adoration towards experimentation pervades across the record, leaving you wholly bewildered by the sheer imagination and also utter chaos that he’s able to synthesize.
Parts of the record leave you completely gobsmacked and not in any sense of awe inspired adoration towards a certain melody, but more so towards the sheer absurdity and seeming lunacy of the chaotic raucous that’s being onloaded onto you. It’s an unbelievably inventive record, loaded with so many different sounds and samples that work in places and cut you off in others.
Abbey Road Live! was recorded live, with COVID, at world-renowned* Abbey Road Studios** created on a bunch of antiquated equipment that Firth still doesn’t understand despite using it for about fifteen years. The three tracks explore Firth’s fascination for things that sound like voices, weird noises, and a whole lot more. An absolutely absurd and frenetic piece of robotic and frenzied techno from an ever so innovative artist.