The broken pitter-patter beats and downtempo foray through wandering synths only seek to further encrust clocolan’s ability to shift us into familiar BoC dimensions.
A mesmerizing continuation of clocolan’s field of vision
Emlyn Ellis Addison, a South African artist living in Providence, Rhode Island creates music works of art via analog electronic and tape machines, found sounds and colorful compositions that come to life like long-lost Boards of Canada artifacts. Melodies are often distressed and haunted, however, there’s a particular beauty that pervades these eight slices of life—polished yet somehow faded nostalgic time-capsules from another planet.
The broken pitter-patter beats and downtempo foray through wandering synths only seek to further encrust clocolan’s ability to shift us into familiar BoC dimensions. Where parallel frequencies, tones, drones, and faded rhythms manage to inspire and diffuse our senses, transcending time and space, This Will End In Love is a mesmerizing continuation of clocolan’s field of vision.
Time-traveling through outer layers of ambient, dust, and debris, detuned vocal strands are blended through blurred kaleidoscopic windows as faded audible photographs of our past are revealed in fragments. A truly otherworldly musical collection that rummages through sublime and subliminal messaging, ultimately letting us know that this will end in love, and it really does.
Perhaps now is the time to step into clocolan’s cosmic soundscapes, after all, this is his third full-length album and who knows when we’ll hear anything from Sandison and Eoin. For fans of Cult 48, Dalham, Faex Option, PBS73, Hanut Munson, 4T Thieves et al, This Will End In Love is a welcomed retreat.
This Will End In Love is available on Castles In Space August 6, 2021. [Bandcamp]
