Last copies of the first edition. Major new album by Emeralds, released on their own private imprint in an edition of 1000 copies. The trio have been talking about this LP as their greatest work to date and it really does feel like the record they have long threatened to make, a highly ambitious and exactingly produced suite of tracks that soundtrack nowhere as beautifully as anything in the back catalogue of Klaus Schulze, albeit refracted through a post-1980s mindset. Schulze’s Black Dance LP feels like the closest comparison, that same feel of a slow, eerie sunrise on another world, arcs of avant-classical synth that sound like sighing strings, propulsive rhythms that seem to rise in bubbles from out of the tracks themselves. The way that the group sink treated field recordings deep into the grooves makes the music feel spookily three-dimensional and when McGuire rips with a particularly skyward solo, it feels like the whole thing is ready to take off. It’s a great *sounding* LP, with a luxurious depth and precise focus that facilitates maximum immersion. When the whole deal comes to be written, this is one of the albums that will define the whole psychedelic synth revival. The LP comes pressed on multi-coloured swirl vinyl with a full colour insert. Highly recommended.
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