Fsik Huvnx - Sarmoung

Sweeping dark ambiance from Fsik Huvnx with Sarmoung on Other Electricities. Creating an elegant balance between ragged texture and delicate beauty. A miasma of indistinguishable looped instrumentation, evolving in that transparent seamless fashion that you discern only after a return to consciousness. And if you're listening to a release like this correctly (sorry, as if there is such a thing), you let yourself wander, and explore the places your mind wants to go. You can do that here, embark from one shore, let the textures of the loop temper your thoughts, and return to the same shore to find the view changed. Over the course of this 8 eight movement massive hour of sound, experiences come and go, the mix elegantly introduces new elements, but the constant is the loop, which moves outward, pauses, and returns, soaked in beauty and neurosis. A massive, piercing, blinding body of sound. Everything that matters all at once.

Fantastic physical presentation. Hand painted cardboard wrap around, available in purple or smokey tint, and inside a beautifully simple clear velum insert with liner notes. Digital copy included. Grab direct from Other Electricities

Givan Lötz - Snarling

Curious, comforting, pop compositions from Givan Lotz, with Snarling on Other Electricities. Truly, this is exceptional material. Over the course of seventeen tracks, four previous releases are melded into single expression that runs the gamut from desperately heartbreaking synth and vocal, to quizzical ambience. Backing the vocal, a wonderful mix of modern clean synth timbres is juxtaposed by something that sounds like a bargain Casio, and then layered with gentle guitar. And through this unlikely mixture, a sort of genre nothingness is achieved. A place where dispute my earlier attempts to provide some context, your innate need to classify the sound disappears, and only the atmosphere exists.

The entire experience feels almost comatose, aching and dragging the listener through the emotional murk. The way Lotz delivers with exceptional patience, maintaining a sombre rhythm, and then within that rhytm creates such incredible narratives is startling. The emotion pouring out of every ounce of the vocal on Oh Andrew is so intense I'd defy someone to hear it and be unmoved. It's a standout track on a tape of standout tracks. Three consecutive listens and it's still sinking in. It is that good. Killer.

Wonderfully presented physical edition. Yellow shells, jcards that appear designed to be reversable to blue depending on your preference. Comes complete with digital download. Releasing on 12/13, Secure yours with a pre-order from Other Electricities.

Giulio Aldinucci - Archipelago

Thoughtfully constructed and deeply hypnotic textures from Giulio Aldinucci, with Archipelago on Other Electricities. Each and every so often I come across a recording that sounds, without being too pretentious about things, to be a series of overwhelmingly satisfying somethings, that to me sound to be made of little to nothings. In short, a lot from a little. Vague and indescribable instrumentation that taken separately could be easily missed. Somewhere in between ambience and musique concrete, but not quite either, and better for it. And with all that said, it shouldn't be assumed that there isn't something fantastically musical going on here. Quite the opposite, massive richly detailed melodic movements that paint a gentle visual for the ears. A piece of art that seems as concerned with what your mind might see, as what your ears will hear. Truly enamored on this one.

Edition of 100, pro dubbed, hand printed cardboard wrap around case. Digital download included. Grab direct from Other Electricities.