Mastered by Slowdive’s Simon Scott, body / negative’s forthcoming album Everett (Track Number Records on December 8, 2023) includes contributions from Madeline Johnston aka Midwife and Randall Taylor aka Amulets. The album’s sixth track “persimmon” features Justin Maranga of Dune Altar Records and Lionel Williams (Vinyl Williams). The song begins with echoing, ethereal tones in the middle distance and the sound of a voice like all of it is coming to you from deep inside a cave or from across a canyon where the acoustics are just right enough to carry sound from a distance so that it’s discernible if not explicitly identifiable. The effect is like that feeling of half-remembering a dream on waking up and wanting to get back to it. In this case a more solid bit of percussion comes into the foreground surrounded by melodious, abstract voices and a floating echoing set of tones. One stream of sound seems to be going one direction and the other in the opposite but all circling and interweaving into a tapestry of textures and soothing music into which the anxious wrinkles in your psyche can unravel. It is a music that invites you to take it on on its own terms without needing to impose a genre as a tool of comprehension as in that mix are elements of ambient, slowcore, shoegaze, musique concrète and post-rock but combining to create something uniquely entrancing. Listen to “persimmon” on Spotify and follow Los Angeles-based artist body / negative at the links below.
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