In 1978, a Sheffield art school project called The Future splintered into two of the most important acts in British electronic music: The Human League on one path, Clock DVA on the other. Where the League chased pop, Adi Newton's Clock DVA pushed toward something colder and stranger, industrial rhythm fused with cut up voice and cybernetic theory, culminating in 1983's Advantage before the band went dormant. A second phase, based between Berlin and Florence, produced the acclaimed Buried Dreams in 1989 and closed with Sign in 1993. Then, in the 2010s, Newton reactivated Clock DVA a third time, now alongside multimedia artist Maurizio TeZ Martinucci, and the collaboration quietly built an entire body of work that never had a proper home. Second Sight is that missing album, assembled after three years of digging through live sets and archives to finally give the decade its own record. The material draws from the 2014 mini LP Clock 2, the 2016 Neoteric EP, and a handful of rarities and unreleased pieces, including the never-before-issued Re_arketechton and Re_amna, alongside tracks first heard as CD-only bonus cuts on 2022's Noesis. Across it, Newton's cavernous voice moves between narrative and pure signal, wrapped in metronomic pulses, glacial drones, and the kind of surgical, synesthetic production Clock DVA have chased since their earliest days. It's audiovisual music built to be felt as much as heard, exactly the mission Newton and Martinucci set out to complete. Nearly fifty years into Clock DVA's existence, Second Sight functions as both capstone and rediscovery, proof that the project's most obscure decade holds some of its most rewarding material. This double vinyl gatefold edition presents ten of those pieces on 140 gram black vinyl, cut and galvanically developed for the format and freshly mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, published through Mute Song. A missing chapter in one of industrial music's foundational catalogs, finally on wax.
