The latest suite by composer (and Stars Of The Lid co-founder) Adam Wiltzie took shape following a move north from Brussels into the Flemish countryside, although it was inibally inspired by a recurring dream wherein “if someone listened to the music I created, then they would die.” The album uniquely evokes and evades the allure of oblivion, keening between beauty and ruin, forever unresolved. Wiltzie cites the barbiturate of the btle as both muse and sacred escape: “When you are sirng face forward on the daily emobonal meat grinder of life, I always wished I could have some, so I could just fall asleep automabcally and the feeling would not be there anymore.” Recorded at Wilzie’s home studio, with strings added in Budapest at the old Hungarian Nabonal radio facility (Magyar Radio), the tracks feel simultaneously inbmate and infinite, unfolding vistas glimpsed in an inner space. Robert Hampson of English drone rock icons Loop mixed the album, further lending the music a sense of cinemabc expanse and oblique hypnosis. These are fugue states as much as fugues in a literal classical music sense—smeared epiphanies of uncertain memory and spabal dislocabon, coaxed from the unconscious and set alow.
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