Everything, All At Once Forever

Hardback
Edition of 600
Kominek, 2024

Everything, All At Once Forever was the last track on side two of Th’ Faith Healers’ second LP. It was 20 minutes long because that was the length of the tape we recorded it on. The engineer waved at us from the control room when the tape was about to run out, so we could stop in time. We only did one take, and that was the point. We never intended to do it again.

“I played drums with Th’ Faith Healers from 1988–94, and it taught me how to unlearn the ’80s. The stranglehold that aspirational culture had on the UK had become stale by then, and there wasn’t even the money to prop it up. It was a very claustrophobic time. I took a lot of pictures of my friends at home because there wasn’t anywhere else to go; social life was dropping round for tea.

I had lost touch with current music, I was playing drums with a rather loose jazz outfit, and listening to Krautrock. It’s hard to convey just how few distractions there were. I hadn’t really been paying attention, but it seemed something different was happening—not in terms of a particular sound, but an anti-careerist denial of the present, the future, time itself. A turn inwards, externalised, very loudly, to each other.”
— Joe Dilworth