BILLOW OBSERVATORY - The Glass Curtain - CD [APR 25]

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Following a string of increasingly electronica-minded releases, Billow Observatory returns to the haunted hunting grounds of their 2012 debut with a fully ambient, percussionless pearl.

Embracing chance and randomness, spectral guitars rise, flitter, and crackle into dusty particulates as the concept of time is thrown out the window on each track. An increasingly hostile society no doubt contributes to the album's sense of introspection and the quest for "otherness". Brooding, spooky, and beautiful, listeners are rewarded with a highly detailed collection of songs evoking visions of slowly spinning globes being knocked slightly off axis.

Trans-Atlantic ambient duo Billow Observatory consists of Denmark's Jonas Munk and Jason Kolb from Michigan. Kolb has a background in the vibrant Michigan space rock scene as part of ambient-rock band Auburn Lull. Munk first received recognition for his solo work as Manual and has later collaborated with Ulrich Schnauss and worked as producer on a number of projects spanning a wide range of genres.

RIYL: Biosphere, Dedekind Cut, Stars of the Lids, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Brian Eno

Tracklist: 

1. Broken City Seance
2. Systol Nightshade
3. Vanish Always
4. Colza
5. The Glass Curtain
6. Shadow Through The Eyelit
7. Armistice
8. Arise And Perish
9. Sundial