Foxy Digitalis
Time stands still, and the world’s sonic echoes continue ringing. Slow movements rise and fall through rich, fog-laden valleys as Christopher Willits blurs the lines between the seen and unseen. Sharp synth timbres are an accent to the underlying swells, pointed reminders of the emotive depths hidden within, aloft on pensive guitar clouds. Each note […]
Morning whisps are suffocated under an emotive blanket of strings as “Drowned Ground” slides into a fairytale serenity. Rising arrangements lift spirits into starlit skies, fusing melodic string arrangements with an ethereal spirit. Less Bells create a timeless, emotional atmosphere buoyed by cascading melodies and radiant sonics. “Drowned Ground” hits hard as it spreads across […]
There’s a haunted dissonance hiding in the hollows of Less Bells’ wondrous “Scheele’s Green,” an ancient energy infusing the pensive arrangements. Julie Carpenter and Dain Luscombe pull from various influences, from Europen folk to classical and experimental electronica, fusing it all together in a memorable aural narrative. Liminal echoes bridge the sonic divide between the […]
Kenneth James Gibson’s new album, Groundskeeping, swims through solemn, turbulent seas before emerging weary and determined on a distant shore. It’s a record with emotive soundscapes interwoven with careful details that bring memories to the surface long-thought buried. Cascades of melancholic strings become a waterfall of languid remorse, buoyed by a few embers of hope. Groundskeeping is an […]
Kenneth James Gibson has an innate skill at creating enveloping moods with his music. His last two albums for Kompakt, In The Fields Of Nothing and The Evening Falls, built expansive worlds where anything seemed possible. His newest, the first release on his newly formed label Meadows Heavy Recorders, Groundskeeping shares similar aspects, but turns further inward and creates […]