Emeralds "Allegory of Allergies" 2xLP wolf eyes
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Description
Vinyl and sleeve in NM condition
Label Description: "Having laid down the groundwork with What Happened and the near-perfect Solar Bridge, the crown princes of drone deliver what might prove to be a career-defining moment - the sort of thing destined to be reverentially whispered about amongst analogue fanatics the world over for generations to come... possibly. Even the most delirious bluster you might direct at this exceptional double slab of vinyl might be deemed justifiable once you've clapped ears on it: there's something about this trio's handling of their art which not only exudes a comprehensive knowledge of their antecedents (Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh spring immediately to mind), but suggests an understanding of the truly essential components of drone and synthesizer music. The music on Allegory Of Allergies is actually a shortened, revisited version of music originally released on a two-hour Gods Of Tundra cassette. The magnitude of this album is still truly immense though, reveling in the beauty of electronic sound and approaching its subject with that same freshness and sense of wonderment found on works from the BBC Radiophonic stable, or perhaps even pieces by Morton Subotnick and Pauline Oliveiros. 'Nereus (Spirits Over The Lake)' is a great introductory gambit, flooding the speakers with a delicate and disciplined confluence of tones, with minuscule melodies swimming about therein. Following this magisterial, side-spanning first piece the B-side features one or two shorter entries, giving you a sense of tonal variety and the group's wider repertoire. After a sublime first disc you discover that not all the music here is so easy going: from a slow start, 'Underwater Mountain' reveals itself as the album's most extreme entry; a monolith of loud dissonance that's mercilessly dense but magnetically beautiful all the same. The final entry, 'Arbol Del Tule' might rank as the finest thing here though, featuring gentle, dissolved guitar figures looped and meshed into the blend of electronic sonorities, helping build a sense of melancholic resonance. By the midway point, what sounds like a close-up field recording of a crackling woodfire emerges from the drone, sounding huge and gloriously tactile in the mix. Allegory Of Allergies is destined to become one of this year's most memorable albums in the ambient genre, exhibiting sober, steady-handed analogue craftsmanship the like of which was last heard on 2008's Kevin Drumm outing, Imperial Distortion"
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