Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
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Artist: Stars of the LidEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Music Label: Kranky
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Dungtitled (In A Major)
- Articulate Silences, Pt. 1
- Articulate Silences, Pt. 2
- Evil That Never Arrived
- Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)
- Don't Bother They're Here
- Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage
- Even If You're Never Awake (Deuxi?me)
- Even (Out)
- Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
- Another Ballad for Heavy Lids
- Daughters of Quiet Minds
- Hiberner Toujours
- That Finger on Your Temple Is the Barrel of My Raygun
- Humectez la Mouture
- Tippy's Demise
- Mouthchew
- December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface
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It seems that I've been lately in a "chill out" mode, talking up Somnia, Hidden Shoal, and Darla labels, so it only makes sense that I turn my attention to Kranky once again. Two disks full of ambient bliss come from this Chicago label, giving us yet another quality release from Austin based guitarists Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride, also known as the Stars Of The Lid. The latest SOTL release, And Their Refinement Of The Decline, is much more than a collection of drone-based ambient textures. It is indisputably modern classical in nature, where acoustic sounds stand out in front of the curtain of beatless soundscapes. The waves of pads and strings gently swell in dynamics towards the perfectly groomed and endless playa del sonido. These cycles of calmness retreat and repeat, as does everything else in the universe. Some critics may snicker at the genre, reminding them of massage parlors and yoga studios. But that may be because their mind is over polluted with thoughts - the daily noise that always promises a better tomorrow. But only if they pause and really listen, they would locate the present moment and the peace that lies within, with Stars Of The Lid providing the ideal accompaniment. In the world of contemporary ambient composition few excel in continuous evolution of sound. Stars Of The Lid is at the frontier, along with Hammock, The World on Higher Downs, Fennesz, Bitcrush and William Basinski. Their latest album reasserts once again, that Wiltzie and McBride are indeed the stars of our own personal cinema, located somewhere between the eye and the eyelid.
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