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01. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Pulsus
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02. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Kercheval
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03. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Nulstil
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04. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Plains
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05. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Montclair
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06. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Vex
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07. BILLOW OBSERVATORY - Plum
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ARTIST
BILLOW OBSERVATORY
TITLE
II: Plains/Patterns
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
AZURE VISTA RECORDS
CATALOG #
VISTA 002LP
VISTA 002LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/7/2017
LP version. Milky transparent vinyl. Edition of 300. Includes download code.
Billow Observatory
is the trans-Atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's
Jason Kolb
(
Auburn Lull
) and Danish producer
Jonas Munk
(
Manual
).
II: Plains/Patterns
departs from their self-titled debut's (2012) amorphous ambient haze with a more rigid, albeit subtle, underpinning of rhythm and pulse. Traces of shoegaze, modern minimal electronica, and kosmische appear on every track, but are mutated into something mysterious and new. "Pulsus", for example, opens the album with a driving Teutonic stutter and washes of serene guitar loops that are punctuated by bursts of filtered synth patterns. Centerpiece, "Plains", expands the ambient formula into an inspired epic in three parts, where swells of processed guitars, distant voices, and faint echoes of Detroit techno are weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. "Vex" and "Plum" seem to pay as much homage to
Slowdive
and
Eno
's
Harold Budd
collaborations as to the modern minimalism from Cologne or Berlin. For ambient aficionados,
II: Plains/Patterns
is a gorgeous sounding full-length not to be missed.
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