Windy_and_Carl-Allegiance_and_Conviction-(KRANK226)-CD-FLAC-2020-HOUND

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194,15 MB
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Date
2020-07-23

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         Artist......: Windy & Carl
         Album.......: Allegiance and Conviction
         Label.......: Kranky
         Genre.......: Ambient
         Catnr.......: KRANK226
         Source......: CD
         Rip.date....: 2020-07-23
         Str.date....: 2020-03-27
         Quality.....: 698 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
         Url.........: http://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com

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         1.    The Stranger                                      4:32
         2.    Recon                                             6:42
         3.    Moth To The Flame                                 9:04
         4.    Alone                                             6:29
         5.    Will I See The Dawn                               5:47
         6.    Crossing Over                                     5:51


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    ,\  /...  . . ....  ....       \      /         '  Size     200.74______
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    ,:   Divine, endlessly reverberating dream-pop from the much loved     :,
     :   Windy & Carl, reprising and refining their very special brand of  :
     :'  shimmering shoegaze vistas on their first album proper since     ':
    ,:   2012.                                                             :,
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     :'  Born in dream-popÆs second wind, when it shifted further into    ':
    ,:   etheric margins after 4AD brought it to near mainstream acclaim   :,
     :   during the æ80s, Windy & Carl were at the eye of a slow moving    :
     :'  sound emerging from Chicago and centring around the Kranky       ':
    ,:   label in the æ90s, whom theyÆve become synonymous with over the   :,
     :   years.                                                            :
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    ,:   With æAllegiance and ConvictionÆ WindyÆs vocals are again an      :,
     :   elusive, poetic presence, drifting in and out of focus to         :
     :'  channel Nico at her smokiest, or even one of the alien spirit    ':
    ,:   voices collated in the gorgeous Tongues Of Light sides, and all   :,
     :   typically bathed in their deeply anaesthetised sound, smudging    :
     :'  the guitar style of Robin Guthrie into imaginary infinity.       ':
    ,:                                                                     :,
     :   Windy & Carl have been crafting inner space electric guitar and   :
     :'  bass vistas for nearly three decades now, but their latest       ':
    ,:   feels as vital and vaporous as any peak opus in their vast        :,
     :   catalog. Subtly more succinct than their previous albums,         :
     :'  æAllegiance and ConvictionÆ finds Carl HultgrenÆs guitar         ':
    ,:   amassed in pillowy layers of bass and cirrus timbral              :,
     :   iridescence, feeling out sound stage settings for Windy that      :
     :'  shift from the chthonic, sepulchral drone-pop majesty of æThe    ':
    ,:   StrangerÆ, and the breezier pastoral relief of æReconÆ, to the    :,
     :   densely forested fug that mask her in æAloneÆ, while the          :
     :'  shimmering instrumental hope of æWill I See the DawnÆ pays up    ':
    ,:   in quietly cathartic effect up in the romantic guitar strokes     :,
     :   and decaying angelic chorales that cradle WindyÆs fading spirit   :
     :'  on the closer æCrossing OverÆ. Lend an ear and youÆll be richly  ':
    ,:   rewarded.                                                         :,
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00-windy_and_carl-allegiance_and_conviction-(krank226)-cd-flac-2020-pr2,69 MB
00-windy_and_carl-allegiance_and_conviction-(krank226)-cd-flac-2020.m3215 B
00-windy_and_carl-allegiance_and_conviction-(krank226)-cd-flac-2020.nf7,18 KB
00-windy_and_carl-allegiance_and_conviction-(krank226)-cd-flac-2020.sf275 B
01-windy_and_carl-the_stranger.flac24,04 MB
02-windy_and_carl-recon.flac33,17 MB
03-windy_and_carl-moth_to_the_flame.flac42,80 MB
04-windy_and_carl-alone.flac35,68 MB
05-windy_and_carl-will_i_see_the_dawn.flac29,64 MB
06-windy_and_carl-crossing_over.flac26,12 MB