White Noise Sound: Fold In Time

Rocket Girl Records

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Out 17 October 2025

Psych pioneers White Noise Sound return with remixes of their debut album by the likes of  Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, Super Furry Animal’s Cian Ciaran and techno artist Phil Kieran.

One of the great things about 2025 is the re-emergence of the mighty White Noise Sound. For lovers of modern Psych this is wonderful news indeed, as the two albums they previously released are spoken about in hushed terms by those in the know.

This re-emergence has so far taken the form of the remastered rerelease of their debut album, known by the tag WNS1, and now we are moving into phase 2 with the release of new album Fold In Time, focusing on previously unheard remixes of tracks from WNS1, the band say “We wanted to honour the spirit of the original album while inviting some of our favourite artists to completely destroy it.”

As with WNS1, each track is its own lysergic journey, with 6 tracks, bookended by remixes of album opener Sunset. It is intriguing to see what these remixers have made of White Noise Sound’s psych anthems, as there has always seemed to be much going on beneath the surface of their songs and it will be interesting to see which of these layers is perhaps unearthed or given prominence.

As with WNS1, Sunset starts things off, this time with a Sonic Boom remix that focusses on the driving, hypnotic qualities of the original. The piledriving guitars are largely replaced with a pounding electronic pulse, but still lurk in the background and make the occasional run to the front line. The relentlessness of the original is still very much present and even increased due to the electronic nature of the remix.

I originally expected Sonic Boom to bring further elements of Spacemen 3 to his remixes, but instead he ignores his own past and finds the song’s strengths, magnifying them and refocusing the song.

Following this is the Resurrection Machine remix of WNS1 highlight There Is No Tomorrow. Again, the heart of the song is located and brought to the fore. This time, this is the hypnotic, dream-like quality of the original track. The new version ebbs and flows in waves of sound with an almost ambient quality. The whispered vocals are high in the mix and are carried by otherworldly backing vocals, giving the song a trancelike feel that we, as listeners, can drift along on.

Fires In The Still Sea is another track that lends itself to reinterpretation. Being little more than a tremolo effect keyboard and barely there vocals, there would seem to be plenty of scope for remixer and Andrew Weatherall collaborator Timothy J. Fairplay to get his teeth into. The result is miles removed from the original, with a four to the floor bass drum and housey keyboard loop providing the backing for the floaty sounds of the original. This new version would feel completely at home in a Balearic DJ set and has a good distance between remix and source material.

That said, the eddies and whirls of the original are high in the mix and are still an integral part of the song, this is not a case of adding a drum beat and walking away, but rather the original has been woven into a dancefloor friendly shiny new track that takes White Noise Sound to newer pastures.

Blood is remixed by Hardway Bros and is transformed from a slow, intense rocker into another dancefloor filler, complete with bubbling Acid bassline. The song has a flavour of Happy Monday’s WFL remix about it and again could quite happily feature in the set of some of the more eclectic DJs around. The rolling tom-tom drum sounds even go as far as adding a funky feel to the song.  Snippets of the original come and go, anchoring the remix to its fundamental parts, but again there is a healthy disregard for the version of Blood that we already know and love.

No Place To Hide is perhaps my favourite song on WNS1, so I am wary about what Sonic Boom may have made of this, but I needn’t have panicked as this is the remix that remains most faithful to the original. Instead of transforming the song into something different, this version focuses strongly on the source material and brings forward the more ambient qualities, taking out the louder parts and most of the drums.  What we are left with is a calm, meditative piece that is rich with atmosphere and would be perfect for an after party, when the highs are coming down and we seek peace and serenity.

It is still an incredible piece of music and is loaded with tonal moods.

To finish things off, we return to the start with Sunset, this time remixed by Phil Kieran in another four to the floor version. Perhaps Sunset is the song that most lends itself to remixing due its repetitive and cyclical nature. Kieran’s take on the song takes the original as a starting point and transforms it into a dance version but still contains its menace and intensity. The wall of guitars that make Sunset so powerful on WNS1 occasionally rise to the surface and are a reminder of the sheer power the song has.

Fold In Time is a project that has long deserved to see the light of day and can happily stand on its own two feet as a project that looks at the power and intensity of WNS1 through a variety of different lenses.

It is at times interesting, powerful, soothing and upbeat. As any White Noise Sound album should be, it is a excursion that takes in many different views and landscapes.

2026 will see the last part of this triptych of releases from White Noise Sound, in the form of a much anticipated live album. Hopefully there is more to come after this, because the mere existence of new White Noise Sound records makes the world a better place.

White Noise Sound is available on pre-order here 

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Words by Banjo, you can find his Louder Than War archive here