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Artist......: Telefon Tel Aviv
Album.......: Dreams Are Not Enough
Label.......: Ghostly International
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: GI-343
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2019-09-24
Str.date....: 2019-09-27
Quality.....: 665 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://telefon-tel-aviv.bandcamp.com
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1. I dream of it often: 4:58
2. a younger version of myself, 5:15
3. standing at the bottom of the ocean; 5:36
4. arms aloft, 7:43
5. mouth agape, 4:57
6. eyes glaring, 6:57
7. not seeing, 6:16
8. not breathing, 4:50
9. still as stone in a watery fane. 3:30
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,: The return of storied Southern Gothic electronic entity Telefon :,
: Tel Aviv is as unexpected as it is impressive. Their three :
:' influential albums of the 2000ÆsùFahrenheit Fair Enough, Map Of ':
,: What Is Effortless, and Immolate Yourselfùcharted an :,
: increasingly turbulent and textured vision of post-IDM synthetic :
:' songcraft, until the sudden passing of founding member Charlie ':
,: Cooper in 2009 ceased the project, presumably forever. :,
: :
:' During the decade since, co-founder Josh Eustis has performed ':
,: with, produced, mixed, and mastered countless artists, from :,
: high-profile institutions (Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Apparat) :
:' to underground fixtures (Belong, Vatican Shadow, Drab Majesty, ':
,: Tropic Of Cancer), in addition to his own solo and collaborative :,
: work in Sons Of Magdalene and Second Woman. But years of :
:' reflection and processing gradually seeded in him a desire to ':
,: revive TTA and venture a fourth full-length, in the spirit of :,
: what they started: Dreams Are Not Enough. :
:' ':
,: From the shuddering software oscillations of the opening piece, :,
: ôI dream of it often,ö the classic Telefon palette of :
:' hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion feels ':
,: vividly revitalized. The songs stand apart but belong together, :,
: threading a veiled narrative of loss, anger, and ageùthe :
:' crumbling of constancies, shifting sands slipping through the ':
,: hourglass. :,
: :
:' The albumÆs fragmented track titles relate a recurring dream ':
,: thatÆs haunted Eustis since childhood, based on a murky incident :,
: during a family vacation to a remote Alabama coastline when he :
:' was eight. In the dream he swims alone through the waves past ':
,: the sandbar to where the ocean shelf abruptly drops away into a :,
: gradient of infinite darkness; awed, he peers into the depths :
:' and sees himself down at the bottom, mouth open and eyes blank, ':
,: standing motionless like a corpse. :,
: :
:' An undercurrent of eerie melancholy flows through the album, ':
,: manifested in shivering widescreen meditations, depressive :,
: twilit modern pop, and devotional industrial abstractions. :
:' Melodies emerge and evaporate; rhythms lock in step then ':
,: fracture and fade; centers cannot hold. :,
: :
:' ôA younger version of myselfö deftly encapsulates the unique ':
,: poignancy and shadowplay of this TTA iteration, shuffling on a :,
: hypnotic rhythm with the swing of backwards looping tape as :
:' Eustis croons a lost, liminal lament about lost time. ôStanding ':
,: at the bottom of the oceanö sinks even more minimal, subliminal :,
: electricity crossfading into skeletal soul built from ghostly :
:' bass, smeared chords, and naked voice, before ebbing away in a ':
,: cyber-screwed downtempo outro. :,
: :
:' Eustis speaks of wanting Dreams Are Not Enough to evoke a sense ':
,: of emptiness, of cutting unnecessary elements from each mix, to :,
: convey this as a solitary workùframing an absence. A document as :
:' much of whatÆs not there as what remains. ':
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