The new Imprints album, titled Blood Moon—debuting on Data Discs—is a spellbinding passage through ambient and electroacoustic soundscapes, blending reimagined motifs with original compositions inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Sublime transmissions from a world just out of reach
The new Imprints album, titled Blood Moon—debuting on Data Discs—is a spellbinding passage through ambient and electroacoustic soundscapes, blending reimagined motifs with original compositions inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With previously releases on Serein and Experimedia, they continue to captivate the senses. Though I’ve only played the game a few times—my son and wife have defeated Calamity Ganon and even rescued Princess Zelda—Blood Moon lets its soundtrack flow through all the same, conjuring vast landscapes and quiet magic. It’s no wonder it was just named Album of the Week by Norman Records.
Opening with “Theme,” Imprints sets the tone with a swelling drone and overlapping emotive sparks, gently dissolving into “Temple” like one seamless transmission from another world. Spanning recordings from 2019 to 2023, the album weaves tape machines, pedal steel guitar, modular synths, and piano into a textured tapestry, subtly threaded with distant field recordings as sunlight is refracted. By the time “Woods” arrives, the sonic landscape is fully enveloping—both earthy and otherworldly.
Though rooted in ambient time capsules, the trio—Shaun Crook, Alex Delfont, and Darren Clark—venture into hazier terrain as the album unfolds. On “Castle,” stretched tones and flickering guitar lines drift and shimmer, evoking a dreamlike sense of movement. The transmission resolves in “Underground,” a radiant and distilled finale that feels both weightless and entrancing.
Whether or not you’ve journeyed through Hyrule, the soundscapes conjured here are stunning in their subtlety—sublime transmissions from a world just out of reach. It’s likely worthwhile to revisit earlier works, such as Data Trails (Serein, 2014) and Inside Every Second (Experimedia, 2011).
Blood Moon is available on Data Discs. [Bandcamp]
