The “No Place for Us” EP is a three-song introduction to The Sight Below’s hopeful sonic gloom. On the release—his first for Ghostly—the reclusive, Seattle-based producer smears his waterlogged guitar in broad, oceanic strokes, swirling the haze around his tracks’ tantalizingly subtle electronic beats. It’s a sound that encompasses shoegazers’ obsessive tone layering, ambient’s mood-setting sprawl, and techno music’s horizon-spanning momentum at once. The EP opens with “No Place for Us,” a diamond-studded haze of hiss and pulse that recalls a beat-driven cousin of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops; from there, “With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)” sends distant foghorns floating over a tiny kick and hi-hat; and on the melancholy closer “Twice Failed,” the artist preserves time in an ether bottle, all bleary-eyed piano and glinting nostalgia.
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I ran across your "The Good Stuff (08)x" list while purchasing House With No Name by Horse Feathers on eMusic and kind of freaked out by the concordance of our 2008 music purchases. After sampling your list, I picked up Balmorhea and Alias. Props to you.
-B
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