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Artist: Rumpistol
Title Of Album: Away
Year Of Release: 17 feb 2014
Label: Rump – RUMPLP015
Genre: IDM / Experimental / Ambient / Dub
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:01:56
Total Size: 138 mb

Tracklist:
01 A Dream
02 A Town
03 Away
04 Amnesia
05 Asleep
06 Awake
07 A Glance
08 Amar
09 A Fall
10 Adrift
11 Allahabad
12 Atacama
13 Asleep (Kelpe Remix)

Rumpistol’s 5th full album is called “Away” and references, among other things, the isolation, absence and loss that comes with the creative process, but also the privilege of being able to disappear into another world and be 100% present in the music.

After Rumpistol’s recent collaborations with vocalists Red Baron (The album “Floating” released on Project Mooncircle in 2012) and John LaMonica (the It’s Everywhere EP from 2013), he now returns with another step forward in the outgoing direction while acknowledging the finest moments of his earlier instrumental releases too. This is especially heard in the strong focus on detail and the choice of acoustic instruments as a fixed companion to the electronic machinery.
The album features American singer/songwriter John LaMonica, LA-residing Red Baron and Katerine Mills-Rymer of OOFJ.

The title “Away” was chosen because many of the tracks on the album obviously deals with absence and the many ways to get lost or to disappear into something else. Whether existentially or in the escapist sense – to be on the run from something or to be heading somewhere unknown – a driving force that Rumpistol has often mentioned in relation to his creative process.

“Everyone knows what it means to be absent, or the unpleasant and almost humiliating feeling it can be to be around absent minded people. Paradoxically, absence usually springs from a total presence. So when you’re 100% absorbed in one thing then you tend to forget everything else around you. This is the zone I enter when I work alone with my music ” Rumpistol explains.

Like most electronic musicians and composers Rumpistol has always worked alone, so the isolation is a basic condition requiring a certain personality, which some might perceive as introverted or even nerdy.
Rumpistol’s great devotion to analogue sounds shows a passion which some might find kooky too. A passion for deliberately squashed cassette tapes, reel-to-reels, crackling vinyl and vintage synthesizers from before the digital age, where sounds were designed from scratch – slowly with patience and good craftsmanship.
This analogue element mixed with Rumpistols bitter-sweet compositions and subtle use of children’s voices evokes a feeling of nostalgia, where washed-out memories of childhood comes alive. Like on the first single “Asleep” which features elements of an old Danish childrens song or “Adrift” where Rumpistol samples a recording of himself as a child.

The title track (a duet between Red Baron & Katherine Mills Rymer of OOFJ) as well as the track “A Fall” brings the subject of struggling relationships to the table, while the majestic closer “Atacama” feat. John LaMonica sees absence in a much larger universal perspective, taking inspiration from Guzmans documentary ”Nostalgia For The Light”.

With elements from juke, ambient, house, IDM & drum’n’bass, “Away” elegantly summarizes Rumpistol ability to produce highly elaborate and genre crossing electronic music, that still bears a human face, while integrating sonic details with microscopic precision, that can only be made possible by many hours – days – even months of strenuous work in the studio.

It’s an ability that has gained love from critics & DJs alike, from BBC’s legendary John Peel to French techno star Laurent Garnier and Om Unit, and has brought him to venues like Boiler Room UK and MUTEK Montreal.

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Label: Xtraplex
Catalog#: xpl018
Release date: 11-02-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 79 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Ambient, Electronic

Tracklist:
1.Atraplex v2 05:29
2.Clocks Of Exiplosis 06:38
3.Coloss Prack 05:16
4.Orpiclem 04:08
5.Helicoprion 00:46
6.Azrael 03:44
7.Klankabells 04:36
8.Audionaut Preject 05:11

This month is something special: On the 11th of february 2011, exactly three years ago, we released our very first release called ’Sounds For The Geniculate Ganglion’. It was a raw but precious sketch of the future (still available at the bottom of our digital discography btw 😉 ) with a small and fairly totally unknown selection of Belgian digital dream producers. One of the leading figures gathered on that compilation was Gauthier ’Sk’p’ de Hemptinne with ’Altraplex’.

Today we witness the result of three years of work, precious time spent to carefully construct this brilliant album for us.
Lets listen, put on those audio helmets, close those peepers and immerse yourself…

He kicks off where he left it with a new version of the previously featured ‘Atraplex’ track afterwich we meet ‘Clocks Of Exiplosis’, a tender uptempo floating device boosting us higher and higher into the stratosphere.
As the voyage takes us beyond we pass ‘Coloss Prack’, a giant piece of texture dozing in the dark and exploding in our face while passing into the title piece ‘Orpiclem’.
An ocean of wellness sloshing against rough but perfect crafted rythmic textures, a highlight in the sound that we all love and know as Sk’p, one to repeat and play for your grandchildren.
After the title track it is time for a little rest wich we can find in the short but intens intermezzo ‘Helicoprion’. We then have a rolling emotion coming at us with high definition. Twisting and climbing around while being hypnotised, we know we have arrived in awe, we close our eyes and relax.
Untill we hear some ‘Klankabells’ announcing a memory of a storm and who make us want to move things omni-dimensional. It is way too early that we wake up and find peace in what has come to be the 4th version of ‘Audionaut Preject’, a happy goodbye track in a blue 8bit Megaman suit.

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Label: Denovali
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 101 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Ada Deane 2:15
2. Tinder 3:53
3. Odham’s Standard 3:07
4. Direct Voice 3:53
5. The Typophonium 2:55
6. Armistice Cenotaph 4:14
7. Raising William 1:19
8. Pulmonary Piano 4:25
9. Butterfly Jar 5:13
10. Feathered 3:24

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Label/Cat#: Jon Kennedy Federation US – JKF 0102
Year: 13 January, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 177 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Trip-hop, Breaks, Drum & Bass

Tracklist:
1. Boom Clack (Martin Brew remix) (06:03)
2. Funk Boutique (Trevino & Marcus Intalex remix) (05:24)
3. Rock The Beat (feat Ashley Slater – Sinuz, Oliver Lowe, DJ Flux & Friends remix) (04:42)
4. Flow (Rolaz remix) (06:00)
5. Tonto Rides The Gain (Evirgen Occupytaksim remix) (07:00)
6. Electronic Sound Pictures (Exhibitor remix) (05:03)
7. Pronounce Your Shit (feat QnC – Head Chamber remix) (03:35)
8. Live My Life (JFB remix) (05:16)
9. Blue Light (Marc Mac remix) (05:21)
10. Air Force One (Andre Espeut – Lopez remix) (06:32)
11. You Are The Fire (feat Amie J – Waiwan remix) (04:52)
12. Bossa No Var (N3GUS remix) (04:06)
13. Some Strange Folk (Phillip TBC remix) (04:42)
14. Shine So (Cartier Saucier remix) (03:56)
15. The Parade (Cartier Saucier remix) (03:52)
16. Funk Boutique (Ugly Duckling remix – Free Track) (03:42)

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Label/Cat#: Editions Mego – EMEGO 183
Year: 17 March, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 87 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Drone

Tracklist:
1. Toxic Cosmopolitanism (25:02)
2. Exposure Scales: Combat (04:48)
3. Exposure Scales: Sunlight (05:28)
4. Exposure Scales: Tide (05:44)
5. Exposure Scales: Poison (07:06)

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Label: Thrill Jockey
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 101 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Electronic

Golden Retriever is the duo of Matt Carlson (modular synthesizer) and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet), two musicians who blur the line between sounds created electronically and acoustically. The pair formed Golden Retriever in 2008 and began to develop a language informed by the practices of free improvisation as well as the tradition of American experimental electronic composers like Alvin Curran & David Behrman. Golden Retriever creates music that is creatively challenging and structurally complex while remaining inviting and emotionally dynamic rather than adopting a confrontational stance toward the listener.

Seer, their second release for Thrill Jockey, was recorded and assembled over the course of two years at the artists’ studio “Worksound” in Portland, OR. The relaxed timetable gave Carlson and Sielaff an opportunity to write based around new instruments and techniques and to spend considerable time meticulously editing the work. This extends the process employed on their Thrill Jockey debut Occupied with the Unspoken, composing and arranging using editing as a compositional tool.

The opening track “Petrichor” shows Carlson using an 11-limit just intonation system and can, if listened to at a significant volume, create otoacoustic emissions: the generation of new resonance within the inner-ear as a rectification of two perfectly toned and opposing frequencies. The use of this phenomenon as musical material was pioneered by Maryanne Amacher in her sound installations of the 70s and 80s. The song “Sharp Stones” finds Sielaff weaving complex melodic phrases over Carlson’s bed of synth-processed piano sounds, toying with the gestures of modal free jazz. Their ability to move between abstract sound exploration and traditionally engaging musical structures is demonstrated perfectly on “Flight Song,” which features a mantra-like bass clarinet melody beholden to shimmering synthesizer patterns. Golden Retriever’s compositions are inviting and relentlessly listenable, embracing both emotional depth and wild abandon without betraying the hidden framework of complexity within.

Tracklist:
1 Petrichor
2 Sharp Stones
3 Archipelago
4 Flight Song
5 Superposition

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Label: Silent Season
Catalog#: SSE01
Release date: 01-03-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 136 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Deep/Dub Techno

Tracklist:
01. Silence of the Sun
02. Silence of the Sea
03. Walls of Silence
04. Ancient Machine
05. Inside your Sleep
06. Follow Me
07. In the Shades
08. Soften by Rainfall
09. Under the Weather
10. Weightless
11. Closer to the End
12. The Rest is Silence

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Label/Cat#: Second Language – SL 028D
Year: 2 March, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 169 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Indietronica

Tracklist:
1. Bryophyte Society Annual Picnic (08:56)
2. A Brief Message From Our Ancestors (02:24)
3. In Konik Mokkin (05:20)
4. The Long Walk From Sallowes Church (10:29)
5. Hilary & Dave’s Piano #1 (01:48)
6. Nutmeg Saba Cinnamon (04:19)
7. Hilary & Dave’s Piano #2 (02:22)
8. All Who Are Not On The Rock Are In The Sea (08:24)
9. A Fail All Girl (05:44)
10. A Fail All Girl (Loscil Flagra Flagri mix) (04:38)
11. Hilary & Dave’s Piano #2 (P Manasseh mix) (04:26)
12. Bryophyte Society Annual Picnic (Dollboy Bones mix) (08:26)
13. All Who Are Not On The Rock Are In The Sea (Clouds mix) (04:32)
14. The Long Walk From Sallowes Church (Mugwood Hither & Zither mix) (05:54)

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Label: Plusquam Chillout
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 273 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
01. Base 076 – Spectrum Vision
02. Coffee Time – Sawney
03. Vaporize (Part2) – Human Recycling
04. Antares – SilMi
05. Event Horizon – Jens Buchert
06. Desire for Upward – Kokoro
07. Alice and Her Xylophone – Dransfeld
08. Infront of Me – Tor Ma
09. Misty File – Cydelix
10. Rising Beyond – Ninja Kodou
11. Midnight Standard – Petrovszky
12. Solar Cycle – Consciousness Federation
13. Red Road – Koan
14. Don’t Remember – Liquid Nations
15. Silent Hills – Stefan Torto
16. Out of the Blue – Maha Sun
17. Mindforest – Damon McU
18. Saiko Dub – Kukan-dUb-Lagan
19. Nerium Oleander – Deep In Mind
20. Seven Mile Shoes – Lingua Lustra

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Artist: Christina Vantzou
Title Of Album: No.2
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Kranky
Genre: Ambient, Neoclassical
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:34:38
Total Size: 90 mb

Tracklist:
1. Anna Mae (02:21)
2. Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind (04:23)
3. Brain Fog (03:33)
4. Strange Symptoms (01:17)
5. Vancouver Island Quartet (03:31)
6. Sister (04:13)
7. Vhs (04:43)
8. Arp (01:50)
9. Little Darlin Seize the Sun (02:02)
10. Vostok (01:58)
11. The Magic of the Autodidact (04:41)

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Label: Detroit Underground
Catalog#: BPLCRP2
Release date: 14-02-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 142 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Glitch, IDM, Ambient

Phylum Sinter is the musical alias of 33 year old Christopher Todd, of Detroit. The name means a set of species intended to be used as fuel. Since 2002 he has been involved in the leftfield electronic scene, having cut his teeth on numerous netlabels (Post Under, Crazy Language, Xynthetic) and releasing albums on n5md digital imprint Enpeg (the album ‘From Unity To Segmentation’ released in 2009) and MMR (‘Detroit Nocturnes’, released in 2010) and Hopskotch Records (‘Esc’, released in 2013). His style combines heavy love of DSP and modular synthesis systems and software generation with Detroit Techno and early IDM melodic sensibilities. He continues to write music daily and hopes to tour in 2014.

Tracklist:
1. Back 2,1 (04:32)
2. Das Bootie (04:34)
3. Everybody Made Me (04:54)
4. Calmasicanbe (02:26)
5. Genetic Sibling (05:29)
6. Homem Und Smeri (02:42)
7. There By The Bed (04:20)
8. Grids Upon Chaos (04:45)
9. Duck & Shudder (03:01)
10. Back 2,1 (Anklebiter remix) (05:33)
11. Back 2,1 (Consequence remix) (02:16)
12. Das Bootie (Tay0 remix) (06:53)
13. Everybody Made Me (Set In Sand remix) (03:36)
14. Das Bootie (Cooptrol remix) (04:00)
15. Back 2,1 (BLN remix) (03:57)

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Label: Twice Removed
Release date: 15-01-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 58 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Neo-classical/Piano/Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Inércia 02:46
2. Sereno 02:56
3. Todos os sonhos do mundo 03:52
4. Menos 02:59
5. Sopro seu 03:20
6. Tempo 03:30
7. Sobre a brevidade da vida 03:35
8. Ciclo 02:33

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Label: Essence
Release date: 20-02-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 102 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Doom, Ambient, Drone, Shoegaze

Tracklist:
01 Dark Circles (09:35)
02 Mouths (10:42)
03 Lidérc (10:11)
04 Quell (09:58)

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Label: Spekk
Catalog#: KK026
Release date: 06-02-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 100 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 An White Drop Of Morning Dew 10:47
2 Light Blue Mist And Ripple 13:13
3 Warmth Of Winter Woods 12:27
4 The Dawn Of Memories 8:00

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Label: Zoharum
Catalog#: ZOHAR060-2
Release date: 25-01-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 134 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambiebt, Drone

Tracklist:
1 Maľovanie Dúhy 5:33
2 Night Blooming 6:43
3 Zavtra 9:11
4 Textures 5:43
5 Urban Blues 7:58
6 All Summer In A Day 5:24
7 V Ohni So Mnou Poď 6:06
8 All Souls (Will Be Born Again) 8:48

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Label: Ultimae
Release date: 20-02-2014
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 42 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno

Tracklist:
1. Burning Clouds 05:37
2. Halos 05:42
3. Northern Lights 07:03

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Artist: A New Line (Related)
Title Of Album: A New Line (Related)
Year Of Release: feb 2014
Label: Home Assembly – HAM009
Genre: Techno, Experimental, Ambient, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:00:53
Total Size: 157 mb

It’s been a while since we heard anything new from Andrew Johnson, former member of Hood and The Remote Viewer. Back In the days when he used to make music with Craig Tattersall we’d sometimes get to hear tapes of unreleased recordings the pair had made and wonder why the picky old bastard was so unwilling to release any of it – it was just so good. So, we’re pretty excited that just as we thought he’d more or less stopped working on music altogether he’s re-emerged with a new project and a whole new album, released under the “A New Line (Related) moniker. Made from what sounds like a rudimentary setup, the sound here is warm and brittle, yet dynamic and even (dare we say it) heavy. We always loved The Remote Viewer for finding delicate balance between fragile production underpinned by super dense bass weight (something that Johnson himself claims to hate) – and on the evidence of these tracks here he continues to master the fine art of keeping those two elements intact. The 11 tracks here veer from the shimmering drone of “People Kissed Underneath Me” to the out-and-out punchy percussive Boogie House of “The Slow Sound of Your Life”, dropping in on nicely swung Garage offcuts with “Late Period (Insert Band)” and even a final dose of Hood-style vocal bliss on album closer “Great Palaces” – making for one of the most surprising and cockle-warming albums we’ve had in for a while, and a real treat whether or not you’ve encountered any of Johnson’s music before. Highly Recommended.

Tracklist:
01 A New Line (Related) – Vote Malcolm Eden
02 A New Line (Related) – A Withering Attack
03 A New Line (Related) – Claude’s Up.Drum Lp.Do Music
04 A New Line (Related) – The Slow Sound of Your Life
05 A New Line (Related) – Late Period (Insert Band)
06 A New Line (Related) – People Kissed Underneath Me
07 A New Line (Related) – A European Medium
08 A New Line (Related) – Repetition (For Pryzbylewski)
09 A New Line (Related) – Didn’t We Almost Have Etoiles
10 A New Line (Related) – Three Octave Voice
11 A New Line (Related) – Great Palaces

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Artist: Machinefabriek
Title Of Album: Halfslaap II / Stiltetonen
Year Of Release: 14 feb 2014
Label: Chiheihatakeyama
Genre: Ambient, Drone
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:55:3
Total Size: 120 mb

Tracklist:
01. Halfslaap II [35:08]
02. Stiltetonen [20:05]

Like Halfslaap (released on a 3-inch by Standard Form in 2010), Halfslaap II is a very restrained, meditative piece with a slow and subtle development that seems to play tricks with the notion of time. The hypnotic quality of Halfslaap II comes from two simple violin phrases with are almost identical, but different in length, causing them to overlap at different points each time. In the course of 35 minutes, these floating violin tones are pulling the listener into some sort of dreamstate.
The violin on Halfslaap II is played by Anne Bakker, with whom Rutger worked before on the pieces Koploop (2007) and Fabriek Bakker Fabriek (2008).

Stiltetonen (album version) is a continuation of sound piece that was composed to play continuously in a small alley in Amsterdam. As part of the project Tussen-ruimte (‘Between Space’), the looped, minimalistic piano melody transformed the space to an oasis of comtemplative rest in the midst of the busy city center. With it’s spatious pace, the sounds of the city became an integral part of the composition. For this album version, the piano loop forms the base for a more set composition, complimented with extra layers of audio to create an equally immersive home listening experience.

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Artist: Raica
Title Of Album: Motorsatz
Year Of Release: 14 feb 2014
Label: Further Records / FUR 090
Genre: Experimental, Techno Ambient, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:00:55
Total Size: 138 mb

Tracklist:
01 Side A 30:10
02 Side B 30:43

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Artist: cv313
Title Of Album: “Altering Illusions” [Chapter One]
Year Of Release: 6 jan 2014
Label: echospace [detroit] / echospace [detroit] 313-5
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3, 2xCD
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 02:37:32
Total Size: 355 mb

Tracklist:
[Disc 1]
01. Isis 10:47
02. Fading Lights [Original] 9:02
03. Irradiate 5:58
04. Seconds To Forever [Original] 6:23
05. Seconds To Forever [Reduction] 7:28
06. Dimensional [Remastered] 12:04
07. Sailing Stars [Remastered 12″ Mix] 9:58
08. Beyond Starlit Sky [Live] 16:28

[Disc 2]
01. Longing For Darkness 12:32
02. Hypnosphere 9:52
03. Standing Still [Reduced] 20:24
04. Magenta [Reduction] 13:21
05. Beyond The Clouds [Reprise] 22:58

This release, titled “Altering Illusions | Chapter One | cv313” is completely separate from the Altering Illusions compilation released in 2012. It is the first in a three part series from the echospace [detroit] label, each chapter of which will highlight a specific artist. This one contains unreleased and reworked material from cv313.

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Label/Cat#: Graveface – 888003 011441
Year: 22 October, 2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 106 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Downtempo, IDM

Tracklist:
1. We Are The Worst (04:20)
2. Death Set (04:04)
3. Kisses (03:08)
4. 20 Year (03:11)
5. Unto Internity (03:28)
6. Golden Silver (03:43)
7. Legos (For Terry) (24:45)

Sound alchemist Dosh’s albums are generally seamless constructions of fluidly moving swatches of unexpectedly complementary sounds, with frenetic drumming stitched into the lining of beds of playful synths and surprisingly catchy melodies that teeter between quirky and sublime. Keen on collaboration, Dosh often brings other players and vocalists into his webs of sound, extracting the best of what they have to offer to dot his clever tracks with different perspectives. With Milk Money, Dosh’s process seems particularly in focus, and though he can typically get a little busy, there’s a new sense of calm at the core of these tunes. Opening with “We Are the Worst,” Milk Money seems built primarily on a foundation of colorful keyboard sounds, making room for passages of clattering drums and chopped up vocal samples. Throughout the album, the compositions have a driving sense of wonder, like the most optimistic Phillip Glass pieces; they’re even more in line with the child-like wonderment of Nobukazu Takemura. The chiming bell sounds and swooning electronic pads of “Kisses” are propelled by a sturdy beat, finding a territory of happy, hazy nostalgic memories not unlike the best work of contemporaries like Shigeto or Four Tet. The most curious piece on the album and one of its most successful, is the 25- minute album closer “Legos (For Terry).” This epic closing note was originally commissioned for a live performance with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche, and the recorded form wanders in slow motion from a spare electric piano form into a myriad of musical spaces and emotional landscapes. Low in the mix, sputtering multi-tracked drums meet up with more choral vocal fragments, eventually growing into a nightmarish ambient blur on par with Tim Hecker’s fluttering darkness before riding the waves of distortion into a patient repetition of marimba, processed vocals, and swirling electronics. By the end, the dizzying and beautiful piece expresses the fury and unpredictability of life while maintaining a zen-like calm at its core, finding clarity just as easily as it rises to chaos.

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