PRESS

'No News Good News is scored for ‘four people at a table reading newspapers’ but the nonchalance of that description conceals the rigidity of the form and the execution. Strict rhythmic patterns dictate when and in which direction the pages of those newspapers are turned by the (initially) blindfolded musicians; the spillover commercial music we hear, presumably but not necessarily from the headphones worn by the musicians, is a decoy. That faint music aside, you never hear anything that you don’t see being manually produced or cued – including the foregrounded recorded sounds heard later on. The sound of a newspaper page turning, familiar as an everyday banality, becomes unfamiliarly musical through repetition and choreography until the mind starts to cleave to certain elements: the articulation of a page turn, the speed, weight and mood of it (a page turned in disgust or a page turned in anticipation?)'
Andrew Mellor, Seismograf