Previous album Triple Point is enjoyable, and there's certainly continuity. But to my ear it's from here on in that the blissful, silky magic of loscil really sets in. If like me you worked backwards in time from a love for the more recent material, this is another great release, a worthy precursor to First Narrows. Life-enriching.
deliver! This was my first album, orginally only had a couple of tracks. I love those tracks and came back for the rest. Just downloaded. First Narrows, so far sounding really good just a bit different which is the point right?
You know how it is when you're trying to work and everyone on the whole floor is flapping their lips at once? These tracks are an antidote for that kind of torture.
This is brilliant -- I don't know why I hadn't listened to any full Loscil albums until now (thank you EMusic!) Minimal beats are submerged(!) in dub effects and drift in clouds of ambient electronic textures. It sounds a bit like some of the minimal-techno stuff I've been exploring (Gas, Basic Channel) but lighter, warmer; it's got that great Kranky drone thing going on; and pretty often I'm struck by a rhythm or a chord change that reminds me of the sainted early days of Seefeel (before they went all sterile and clanky). I'd recommend "Mute" and "Triton" as the best tracks, but it's all good.
