Review: Songs Of Remembrance was originally released on Drew Piraino's Psychic Troubles Tapes out of Port Ewen, New York in 2014, but gets an essential vinyl edition thanks to the newly-formed Pre-Echo platform. These 21 short but delightful shoegaze passages unashamedly keep clipping, full of tape hiss, saturation and degradation that just add to the dreamy and sometimes violently textured aesthetics. There's some classic sounds reminiscent of The Cocteau Twins, through to Pygmalion era Slowdive where they were at their most avant garde. Some moments even have some quite gloomy and cinematic mood lighting, eighties style: at times similar to Blackest Ever Black alumni Dalhous.
Review: Songs Of Remembrance was originally released on Drew Piraino's Psychic Troubles Tapes out of Port Ewen, New York in 2014, but gets an essential vinyl edition thanks to the newly-formed Pre-Echo platform. These 21 short but delightful shoegaze passages unashamedly keep clipping, full of tape hiss, saturation and degradation that just add to the dreamy and sometimes violently textured aesthetics. There's some classic sounds reminiscent of The Cocteau Twins, through to Pygmalion era Slowdive where they were at their most avant garde. Some moments even have some quite gloomy and cinematic mood lighting, eighties style: at times similar to Blackest Ever Black alumni Dalhous.
Review: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's music is a sublime strain of ambient music, one that is rich in energy and full of kinetic vibrance, which is why we always pay close attention to his movements. He's back on the Devotion imprint with these five wonderful deviations towards the left of field, starting with the eye-opening drones of "Love's Refrain" which dilute beautifully into a placid pool of atmospheric though "Little Dear Isle". The lead track "In Summer" feels watery in texture and conveys a deep sense of euphoria, while "Blue Nudes/I-V" is the first pic of drone on here to contain sparse trickles of percussion, and "Prelude" flaps its noisy wings and glitches amid blurry swarms of female vocal samples. Excellent stuff.
