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Sleepingdog
- Record Label: Gizeh
- Release Date: Apr 26, 2011
- Artist(s): Chantal Acda, Adam Wiltzie, Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie
- Summary: Stars of the Lid's Adam Wiltzie and Belgium singer Chantal Acda release their third album of ambient music.
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- Record Label: Gizeh
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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May 6, 2011The songs unfold with an understated elegance as soothing voices emerge from the colorful, melancholic backgrounds. Ambient drones and spacey synths blossom with shimmering arrangements while the contemplative stylings form a winning combination of radiant sonics and lilting choruses.
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May 6, 2011With Our Heads is a lonely, long stretch of un-anchored time passing, the audible, honest-to-god equivalent of switching one's mind into Airplane Mode and eyeing the smooth, barely altered upper cloudscape for the duration of a flight.
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May 6, 2011In the glutton of pretty records, With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields presents itself as a merely a needle in the haystack; the likelihood is that it will be lost in the mix, not good enough to be remember, but also not bad enough to be singled-out.
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May 6, 2011The problem is that it should feel more intimate than it really is; a minimalist approach to an ambient recording should breathe emotion into empty spaces, but on With Our Heads too many instrumental passages fall flat on their own.