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Mar 9, 2017While never able to fully grasp the Japanese sounds they adore, Visible Cloaks nevertheless have created an album along the axis of Fennesz’s Endless Summer and OPN’s Replica, an abstract electronic album that’s readily accessible and an immersive listen.
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Mar 9, 2017Reassemblage is the finest LP yet to emerge from this diffuse scene, and it also brings a new set of ideas to the table.
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Mar 9, 2017So whilst there are shades of Jan St. Werner, Brian Eno and Yellow Magic Orchestra, the result is a series of soundscapes like nothing else.
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Mar 9, 2017Like “Bloodstream”, some of the LP’s tracks are too striking to let slip into the background. “Terrazzo”, for instance, revolves around an Eastern woodwind melody that summons up images of tranquil waters lifting into the air and forming cryptic shapes. Meanwhile, cuts like “Screen” and “Neume” feature such interesting sound-play that it’s nearly impossible to concentrate on anything else while they’re unfurling before your ears.
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Mar 9, 2017The album is intriguing and accessible, yet just strange enough to stand out among all the other experimental electronic artists mining the early new age era for inspiration.
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Mar 9, 2017Reassemblage already feels peculiarly familiar, but the residue it leaves behind is oddly intangible.
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Mar 9, 2017Reassemblage is compelling, sure, but perhaps only for those who have the patience or curiosity for an exploration of the sonic predecessors of electronica.