Dialect

Returning to the intrepid wanderings of our bold adventurer and protagonist Green, Dialect’s Full Serpent EP traverses unexplored terrain on the map first unfurled in 2024's full length Atlas of Green. Spectres of life and technologies loom in the gaps left by time and haunt Green’s imagination; the old is composted and germinates into the new in a never-ending cycle of forgetting and remembrance, bringing us Full Serpent.

Evolving from the album's vision of a post-collapse world, Full Serpent brings new valences to the sound British composer and producer Andrew PM Hunt has explored under his Dialect moniker. Dialect began as a holding space for an overflow of ideas from DIY recording sessions intended for the underground bands Hunt played in during his past life as a post-punk frontman. From early releases like Advanced Myth and Loose Blooms, to the latest, acclaimed Under~Between and Atlas of Green, Dialect has established a sonic lexicon that proudly bears the hallmark of rudderless drifting; the miracle and freedom of accidental discovery.

Combining new compositions with collages made from repurposed Atlas-era sound, Full Serpent displays a dynamic range of pace and emotion soaring from springy fizz to earnest realization. Sputtering machines produce fragments of music, a residue intricately rearranged and twisted by Green, like filigree, into song. Cogent melodies punctuate meandering textures woven from scavenged samples, imbuing the abstract emissions of malfunctioning devices with unmistakably human longing for an irrevocably lost world. 

The music of Full Serpent feels both handcrafted and spliced from a dream, coherent yet held together by threads of uncertainty. Hunt embraces this instability as a generative force and deepens his fascination with the spirals of time and Ursula K Le Guin's anthropological perspective on storytelling. To embrace this cyclic logic is to celebrate and even venerate the natural processes of decay–to uplift loss and failure, those aspects of life ignored and rejected by the tyrant of industry. 

In this way the music engenders a mode of receptivity, a childlike attentiveness without judgement that feels both older than time and futuristic. Inspired by Russell Hoban's dystopian classic Riddley Walker, the EP's final track “Eusa” foregrounds this sense of timelessness with its broken naïve melody against a wheezing organ almost monastic in its resolve. Elsewhere gleeful, sugar rush keyboards are smeared with tape damaged chamber music, like some ancient plastic bobbing around in a forgotten lagoon. 

We feel Green’s sorrow and joy as they encounter arcane relics, the remnants of our world littering the land of the future. Full Serpent brims with heirlooms of the past - our present - all jostling for space and melting into memory. Half-remembered, half-imagined, Green continues a journey begun in the old world, charting new territory in a search for meaning and taking their place in the never-ending cycle of rebirth and reuse that is history.

Dialect’s Full Serpent arrives January 23, 2026 from RVNG Intl.