VISIBLE CLOAKS - Paradessence - CD [MAY 22]

CD - Paradessence is the third full length album from Visible Cloaks, the influential ambient-electronic duo founded in 2014 by Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile. The CD contains an additional track, “Capgras”, also available on digital formats.

Paradessence, Visible Cloak’s third full length, is an album of tension and reassurance. Its thirteen songs shift, heave, and shimmer against a faintly luminous backdrop of night, a cavern-like space shaped by sparse hyperreal representations of the natural world. The arrangements are simultaneously grandiose and fragile. As adventurous as anything they’ve produced so far, Paradessence is both an inversion and culmination of what came before.

Since becoming Visible Cloaks in 2014, Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile have explored oppositional concepts like organic and artificial, randomness and deliberation, authenticity and reproduction, through a complex set of cultural influences. Paradessence continues this kind of balancing act but brings these strains into greater urgency as life in the 21st century is reordered by these same tensions.

The CD contains an additional track, “Capgras”, also available on digital formats.

Tracklist: 

1. Apsis
2. Skylight
3. Disque (ft. Motion Graphics) 
4. Balloon
5. Slippage
6. Telescoping
7. Shapes (ft. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
8. Thinking (ft. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
9. Zinna
10. Swirl
11. Steel
12. Intarsia (ft. Ioana Șelaru)
13. Capgras
14. System (ft. Componium Ensemble)