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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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\ / ________ Runtime 38:25
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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. ':
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: 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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