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Various Artists - ALWAYS + FOREVER '2023

ALWAYS + FOREVER
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Album name ALWAYS + FOREVER
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Date 2023
Genreelectronic
Play time 41 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 212 MB
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Amos Childs' do you have peace? imprint assembles a global family of like-minded
eccentrics on 'Always + Forever', haunting dream pop structures with filigree
traces of dub and ambience. Stunning material, featuring exclusive, unreleased
tracks from Time Cow, Jonnine, Vessel, Teresa Winter, YL Hooi, Guest, Static
Cleaner Lost Reward, Hermeneia, Zaumne, Birthmark, Silzedrek, Laughter of
Saints, Vessel & Rakhi Singh.

''Always + Forever' began as a way for Childs to highlight the connective tissue
between a varied group of artists who appeared to be operating on a similar
wavelength. You've probably noticed this trend already: the kind of spectral
hypnagogic gear we've been served from outsiders like HTRK, YL Hooi, Teresa
Winter and, of course, Jabu. As the project developed, its scope widened, and
the resulting collection swings in more diverse musical shrapnel strafing dub,
ambient, noise and industrial sounds.

Equinoxx's Jordan "Time Cow" Chung starts things off with the fantastical 'Hey
There Fat Fingers', swerving from the rhythmic rattle of his best-known gear and
looping in orchestral sweeps into a delectable slice of fairytale ambience. It
runs immaculately into Guest's harp-laced 'Heavy Knot', a vocal-led lilter that
begins to distill the compilation's themes, balancing softly-spoken pop with
fanciful plunderphonics and bone-dry thuds. This isn't the only track from
Jabu's Jasmine Butt; she also teams up with producer, DJ and vocalist Birthmark
on 'Freeze in the Aisle', adding languid, breathy vocals to her collaborator's
cosmic oscillator warbles and Childs' own spacious bass plucks.

Naarm fully represents too, HTRK's Jonnine is first to the plate with the
effervescent 'As You Sleep By My Feet', a track that effortlessly shows the
Aussie scene's potency right now, animating its dubwise slump with naïve
flutes and a bossa sway. Scene instigator Tarquin Manek shows up under the
Static Cleaner Lost Reward guise with the charming 'Sweet Paradise', a junky
no-fi miniature that perfectly underlines the recent 'Breathing Under Honey'
full-length, and the forever on-point YL Hooi slips into the aether on 'Glitch
Clarry Ditty', drowning seductive vocals in an oily pool of granulated pads.

Elsewhere, Teresa Winter tries on a new outfit with 'Juniper', evoking the drum
machine-led early (gothy) Cocteaus run and cooing through a barrage of thick,
reverberating beats and crackling synths. Polish sound artist Mateusz Olszewski,
aka Zaumne, caps off a vintage year with 'In the Soil', a blissed-out
collaboration with vocalist Hermeneia that's one of the comp's low-key
highlights, sounding like a modern approximation of trip-hop that avoids the
usual aesthetic markers. 

The mysterious Laughter of Saints run us down the left hand path with two very
different tracks: 'Shards' and 'The Motif'. The former is a garbled, DIY folk
auto-fiction, and the latter a cottage-dubbed improvisation on piano and fiddle
scrapes through the scene's murkiest crevices. Seb Gainsborough, aka Vessel,
provides two tracks that conclude the comp, rubberizing orchestral elements on
'Sleepless' and going full melodrama on the lushly arranged 'It Can't Be Helped
(There Is Nothing In The Sky)', a collaboration with Rakhi Singh.

Despite its range, 'Always + Forever' is a tight and, most importantly,
memorable record that tracks an ephemeral scene that tugs at the space
in-between. 

Tip!!

Tracklist:
1.01 - Time Cow - Hey There Fat Fingers (3:33)
1.02 - Guest - Heavy Knot (3:06)
1.03 - Jonnine - As You Sleep By My Feet (3:46)
1.04 - Static Cleaner Lost Reward - Sweet Paradise (2:03)
1.05 - Teresa Winter - Juniper (3:33)
1.06 - hermeneia, Zaumne - In The Soil (3:32)
1.07 - Guest, Birthmark - Freeze In The Aisle (3:20)
1.08 - YL Hooi - Glitch Clarry Ditty (2:33)
1.09 - Silzedrek - Kristopher Kolumbo Inaction Ark (1:41)
1.10 - Laughter of Saints - Shards (3:26)
1.11 - Laughter of Saints - The Motif (4:14)
1.12 - Vessel - Sleepless (3:50)
1.13 - Vessel, Rakhi Singh - It Can't Be Helped (There Is Nothing In The Sky)
(3:02)

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