Andy Guthrie – Rootless on Students of Decay

Andy Guthrie‘s “Rootless” arrives on Students of Decay: 6 tracks of groove-forward bass / club that earns its place in any crate. All 6 tracks lock in at 0 BPM, keeping the set momentum consistent.

Rootless – Bass / Club Release Details

Behind the Bass / Club : Release Notes

Rootless is Andy Guthrie’s fourth album for Students of Decay, following 2022’s Gyropedie. Created in part during a 2024 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, it finds the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist expanding the hermetic electroacoustic language of their earlier work into something even more open-ended and oneiric. Field recordings mingle with French horn, piano, electronics and, increasingly, the human voice, forming environments whose familiar elements progressively slip into stranger configurations. “Hiraeth” establishes the record’s sense of scale, as field ambience, delicate foley textures, and isolated horn phrases gradually accumulate into a plaintive, nocturnal atmosphere. Elsewhere, recognizable forms appear within Guthrie’s characteristically elusive constructions. On “Brittle Bag,” scattershot drum programming and domestic clatter give way to a smeared, distorted shoegaze anthem, a frayed and unruly song emerging through the unstable surface of the composition before being absorbed again into its surroundings. By the closing “Epiphyne,” this more traditional songcraft comes fully into view. Guthrie’s sung vocals are clear and declarative, articulating themes of identity, intersubjectivity, and love. It makes for an unexpectedly direct conclusion to a record otherwise marked by wildness and mystery. Taken as a whole, Rootless is concerned with what it means to inhabit places—and lives—without fixed coordinates: music that feels persistently adrift, continually finding and abandoning new forms.

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6-Track Tracklist

1. Andy Guthrie – Hiraeth Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | D Major | 0:00

2. Andy Guthrie – Sarcograph Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | C Minor | 0:00

3. Andy Guthrie – Hypogymny Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | D Major | 0:00

4. Andy Guthrie – Brittle Bag Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | G Major | 0:00

5. Andy Guthrie – Ramalina Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | C Minor | 0:00

6. Andy Guthrie – Epiphyne Original Mix

   On Students of Decay | Oct 30, 2026 | Ambient / Experimental | 0 BPM | C Major | 0:00