Half Lives

Ambient / slowcore / experimental. Hyper-prolific frontman behind Nadja and a million other collaborations (including the 3-drummer, 2-guitarist space apocalypse project with thisquietarmy called the “hypnodrone ensemble”, which might as well be called the “hydrocodone ensemble”) continues to mine his inner slowcore with this release under his own name. Not so fuzzed-out; instead dreamy, sparse, trippy, slightly jazzy, and sometimes dizzyingly droney. No FCCs noted. For fans of Zelienople, Boduf Songs, Codeine.

1. (play with 2) Repetitive plucking and light cymbals. Bleeds into 2. (3:14)
2. Continues layering onto the hypnotic groove – more noisiness, ringing (3:25)
3. Sustained fire alarm-type tone and some drones. (2:31)
4. Crawlingly slow pace, long-sustained vocals and lush, spacey guitars. (6:54)
*5. Dense spaceship electronics and melodic drones. (2:34)
6. Brief, lightly brushed cymbals. Lovely. (2:06)
7. Another gorgeous ambient collage that leads into 8. (2:39)
*8. Lengthy, lush, sad, longing, just gd. beautiful brushed and hazy slowcore. (10:58)
9. Drone. Extension of 6, ringing tones. (2:56)
10. Deep bass and glass-like disassembly, woozy-breathing samples. (3:16)