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- Summary: The first non-soundtrack full-length studio release from Stars Of The Lids' Adam Wiltzie was recorded in Belgium with orchestral strings recorded in Hungary.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock, Neo-Classical
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UncutApr 26, 2024“Stock Horror” offering aghostly absence, its additional sepulchral weight midway through welcoming what could be ameteor shower, while the amorphous “Dim Hopes” ultimately brings brighter skies too. Similarly, “We Were Vaporised” effects alanguid transubstantiation. [Jun 2024, p.39]
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Apr 23, 2024It's a richly orchestrated, superbly crafted effort that veers between several different emotional states before its time is up.
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MojoApr 23, 2024The saturnine wavs of As Above Perhaps So Below suggest the torpor induced by the titular barbiturate, while We Were Vaporised proffers further subterranean tectonics offset by cosmic keyboard drifts that might have been plucked, like much here, from an art-house sci-fi movie score. [Jun 2024, p.91]
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Apr 23, 2024Wiltzie spends a lot of the album’s runtime in his orchestral-drone comfort zone, but whenever the terrain threatens to sound too well trod, he pulls out something like “Dim Hopes,” with its twinkling constellation of vibraphones, or “Stock Horror,” which seems in the process of being ground up and devoured by the earth.
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Apr 23, 2024These nine tracks prioritise serenity and beauty in their evocation of some unknowable beyond. Their sparkle can become almost too perfect, which makes the dark abruptness of the last two pieces feel like release, even if they throw its general hopefulness into uncertainty.