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Essentially an anonymous one-man band project operating out of merrie England, the ironically named The Modern Many create often short, avant-garde instrumental-focused music. They are known for their use of shifting time signatures, obscure samples and eccentric, odd lo-fi production that shows little regard for balance or tonal quality.

The Modern Many’s sources consist of half-digested memories, unconventional instrument tunings, and collaged elements from a wide variety of found sounds, all of which contribute to a singular and chaotic reconstruction of a world whose rhythm and din is inescapable.

The tendency to elaborate obsessively on simple forms and in often chaotic ways is a characteristic of much outsider art. As Deborah Solomon has written about the artist Joseph Cornell: “The objects inside his boxes were not just random assortments of material but souvenirs of a quest, a chronicle of infatuations whose meaning was as complicatedly inward as a private journal.”

Since 2009 The Modern Many have streamed a number of pieces online, releasing the highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal sounds of Today is Tonight in October 2011.