| Xela / Heirs Of The Fire |
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| Album: | Heirs Of The Fire | Collection: | General 12" | |
| Artist: | Xela | Added: | Jul 2011 | |
| Label: | Smtg | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-07-31 | Pull Date: | 2011-09-18 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 7 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 21, 2011: | Memory Select II [excerpt] | 4. | Sep 09, 2011: | Songs: CANTAN Ii, I | |
| 2. | Sep 16, 2011: | sounds Ii | 5. | Sep 08, 2011: | don't hate me because i'm beautiful still I | |
| 3. | Sep 13, 2011: | Morning Songs Ii | 6. | Sep 03, 2011: | meow Ii |
| Album Review |
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| Adam Pearson Reviewed 2011-07-29 | ||
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Droning, goopy, foggy bliss. Landscapes and sweeping, dreamy atmospheres with an emphasis on guitar, samples, vocals, and minimal percussion. Both sides transport the listener to a nautical, otherworldly, navel-gazing, hypnotic trance. This evolves slowly but pays hearty dividends to those who invest the attention. Xela used to be more IDM-minded early in his career, but he has developed into an ambient drone stalwart. This slab is from our friends at SMTG. I recommend side A if you don’t have the huevos rancheros to give up 23 minutes. Side A: Dreamy cooing looped vocals and layers of gentleness. Halfway through, vocals drift out and some distant, soaked guitar hypnotizes and meditates. The whole track features light, tingling, chimey percussion. Lo-fi ambient bliss. (11:23) Side B:. Windy, cyclic trudging-through-snow loop, wine glass eerie reverbed chimes. With around 10 minutes left, warbled distant vocals and sirens come in. Sea-faring drifting into a foggy whirlpool. Last 6 minutes are distorted and scary (22:57) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | I | 2. | Ii |