An aptly titled album, a soundtrack to daydreaming along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Selles returns with another long player, this time Distant Horizons shimmies across the spectrum like a trip along the coast (which happens to be one of the tracks titles). Instruments slide across ambient, shoegaze/post-rock, and chilled electronica realms, its muster develops in the form of drifting emotional segues and times gone by. Highlights “Remnant” and “Fragments” develop and build as if Port-Royal had something to do with it, the cascading rhythms, pitter-patter drums, looping melodies, and sun-soaked electrical fuzz are sublime start to end. Selles’ ability to hold the listener in a state of peaked curiosity allows this album to expand and contract. An ebb and flow, each sonic artifact (ie. “Apophenia” and “Pathways”) transcends time and space, stretching light and sound that fans of Esem would gravitate towards. In all, Distant Horizons is an aptly titled album, a soundtrack to daydreaming along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Distant Horizons is available on Bandcamp.
