A Season of Loss may dally with dejection in its forlorn languish with loss, but the ghost is not given up, the balm of its vaporous tones comforting amid the mire.
A document of grit and resolution
Tapes and Topographies’ A Season of Loss sees Todd Gautreau follow up his Past Inside The Present release, A Pulse of Durations, on his own Simulacra with melancholic agenda renewed. World-weary, it blearily scans tenebrous terrain wreathed in decay and dissolution. But as textures amass and loop over land, a sense of sort of solace is afforded. Yes, A Season of Loss may dally with dejection in its forlorn languish with loss, but the ghost is not given up, the balm of its vaporous tones comforting amid the mire. Its degraded loops, dolefully draped, gesturally mirror the circularity of thought in introspection–cloudy, hooded. But even when all is seemingly extinguished in its most fogbound quarters, the tenor of its tones offers up faint glimmers of light. As on “Narcosis,” whose darker pitches tend to drag it down, manages to come up for air thanks to a cresting motif; the process recurs, as if mimetically–a waking dream of endless slow falls inward punctuated by gasping surfacings. Ultimately, though loss and grief may be ever attendant, beneath it all lies a document of grit and resolution.
A Season of Loss is available on Simulacra. [Bandcamp]
