This is immediately enjoyable, transportive, and atmospheric, showing ingredients of delicate musical sweetness.
Darkly romanticized feelings and appealing compositional motifs
Great Panoptique Winter is an ethereal-electro pop duo formed by Jason Sweeney (Panoptique Electrical, Pretty Boy Crossover) and Richard Adams (The Declining Winter, Hood)—two sound artists and songwriters approaching a vast array of musical genres with roots in 80s retro-ish alternative music and synthadelic pop. This sophomore album—which is the creative result of one decade collaborative exchanges—is now welcomed by the indie and adventurous post-rock ambient music label Sound in Silence (who notably produced materials from Yellow6, port-royal, and bvdub.)
Each edition is offered in a beautiful handcrafted package, ultra limited physical publications seconded by digital versions, in the continuity of aesthetics and musical content delivered by micro-labels such as LAAPS, Rohs!, and Twice Removed. This album presents a new component to the usual sound identity of the publisher with the injection of minimal pop textures sometimes shaped in more structured song architectures which rise to the front as ethereal and aerial galactic ballads. Everything flows cohesively and pleasantly, inviting the listener to dive into shear musical bliss.
With darkly romanticized feelings and appealing compositional motifs, This Time Alone is stylistically aligned with bittersweet, catchy synth-pop musical explorations from the past to nowadays. At the crossing point between David Sylvian’s challenging collaborative efforts in the electronic field and Martyn Bates with the addition of Eno-esque sculpted and multi-timbral floating tones. This is immediately enjoyable, transportive, and atmospheric, showing ingredients of delicate musical sweetness. Without being radio-friendly, this release will ravish fans of hypnagogic pop, lo-fi minimal synth, and shoegazing soundscapes with a nostalgic charm.
This Time Alone is available on Sound In Silence. [Bandcamp]
