Another clear candidate for best album of the year, as usual with Glacial Movements, Requiem For A Dying Animal goes beyond simple ambient music spectrums thanks to refreshing and desolate emotional tones with a fancy for meditative dramaturgy.
Tense, sentient, bittersweet and spacious inclinations
Loyal to its stylistic and musical signature immersing the listener in deep recesses of mental isolationism and spiritual stillness, Glacial Movements publish another magnum opus by Alexander Glück (alias Aware). With an aural commitment and an avalanche of microsounds engulfed in sinuous textures, this album is an admirable, poignant and captivating introspective journey through memory paths, broken souvenirs, and images of the past durably frozen in time. Aware’s crystalline and intimate strings are flowing in the air and processed then structured as languid ambient-ish ballads where solemn then detached organic chords are falling down.
With its tense, sentient, bittersweet and spacious inclinations, this album will ravish those fond of deep home listening experiences and avid followers of wistful/moody ethereal cinematics. A perfect entanglement between musique concrète, crackling micro-noises, slowly moving sonic hauntology, and otherworldly abstract electronic melodicism. Another clear candidate for best album of the year, as usual with Glacial Movements, it goes beyond simple ambient music spectrums thanks to refreshing and desolate emotional tones with a fancy for meditative dramaturgy. Highly recommended for fans of Ghost & Tape, Richard Skelton, Machinefabriek, and A-Sun Amissa.
Requiem For A Dying Animal is available on Glacial Movements. [Bandcamp]
