After The Town Was Swept Away

by BlankFor.ms

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np99 what a trip from start to finish! Favorite track: After The Town Was Swept Away.

256 Pi / The Wonky Angle A collection of tape loops, lo-fi abstract minimal house and foggy ambience that comes together in a fragmented but surprisingly effective narrative arc that hits on a lot of strong emotional notes. great stuff! Favorite track: A Fleet Of Celebrants.

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1.	Never Left 00:39	buy track
2.	A Fleet Of Celebrants 03:20	buy track
3.	Crail Family Post Office 03:46	buy track
4.	Kinship I 01:52	buy track
5.	To Survive The Flood 04:03	buy track
6.	Unfurled Atop The Peak 01:59	buy track
7.	Formed By The Slide 03:25 video	buy track
8.	Kinship II 01:10	buy track
9.	After The Town Was Swept Away 05:51	buy track
10.	Colter 01:52	buy track
11.	Ferried Across 03:11	buy track
12.	Kinship III 01:53	buy track

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In music, form is sometimes so intimately connected to experience as to speak meaning more compellingly than any word could. On After the Town was Swept Away, out September 5th on Leaving Records, BlankFor.ms, aka Tyler Gilmore, finds in rhythm a new vocabulary of self-collection. Confronting both grief and joy, its twelve tracks of tape loop manipulation festoon and murmur — the imperfect cyclicality of tape itself at once a metaphor for the record’s meditations on time, and the actual physical support shaping its sounds.

Composed in the aftermath of two quickly succeeding life-changing events for the artist — the birth of his first child, Ellis, in November 2023, and the loss of his mother after a two-year battle with cancer in January 2024 —, the sounds of After the Town was Swept Away were born of unmaking and remaking. The composition process was mostly one of revision: early drum machine sketches were emptied out and degraded, whole songs restructured, tape loops stacked to digest a complex rhythmical biography. Rooted in early experiences in jazz and a long-held love of house and drum & bass, BlankFor.ms’ beat allegiances surface in ways that are never obvious, a vehicle for reinterpreting one’s times anew.

Commanding such an articulate rhythmical language, the music of After the Town was Swept Away speaks thus in intense, affectionate, at times uneasy tones. We feel this deeply on lead single "Formed by the Slide". Against the offbeat loops of quietly loose, layered held-tone vocals — by composer, vocalist and friend of the artist, Ella Joy Meir —, rhythm emerges in noisier surges as if answering their achingly beautiful call. It is the sound of experience in its barest form: when life speaks, we respond as we can.

After The Town Was Swept Away was born from love — not just in tender musing, but through actual, felt communion. This is true, for example, of the triptych titled after Kinship, the Highland Park yoga studio where, in 2024, experimentalist Colloboh hosted BlankFor.ms for an impromptu performance to a routine by yogi Meg Shoemaker, from which the three tracks were assembled. But the influence of others — both musical, as with jazz drummer Marcus Gilmore and pianist Jason Moran, with whom BlankFor.ms recently released a collaborative album, and more intimately personal — is felt throughout the whole record, bound together in rhythm.

Could it be otherwise? Tape loops have a way of preserving and altering the past at once, marking and unmarking sounds and their sources. The beats on After the Town was Swept Away — pensively yet felicitously — come to terms with just that, their rethreaded rhythms making room for unexpected, unhoped for recollection — a way to survive the flood of experience.

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released September 5, 2025

Composed and produced by BlankFor.ms
Mastered by Matthewdavid

Track 2. feat. Remy Le Boeuf
Track 7. feat. Ella Joy Meir

Artwork by Miko Revereza
Design by Studio Kristian Henson

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Tyler Gilmore, known as BlankFor.ms, makes music with degraded tapes, analog synthesizers, and a spinet piano. His work includes two full-length albums, two EPs, and Refract, a collaborative project with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore. His scoring contributions include Academy Award Best Picture nominated film Nickel Boys. ... more

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