Jacob Long's third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, Ghost Poems, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning. Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live FX to imbue them with an intuitive, immaterial feel. Wisps of melody splinter, shimmer, and refract, like light on water; pulses accrue and dissipate, as if mapping shifting sands. Throughout, there's a sense of matter made animate, of absences felt.Long cites notions of "the studio as a dub instrument" and the melancholy of "7th chords on a fake Rhodes patch" as central elements in his process, transforming raw materials into rare thresholds of symbiosis and hypnosis. This is music for night skies in hollowed-out cities, for views across rivers towards unknown shores: restless, placeless, and profound.
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Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway Addicted to the Violence
Scarred For Life
July 18, 2025 -
Subsonic Eye Singapore Dreaming ("Philosophising")
Topshelf Records
July 25, 2025 -
Metronomy Greatest Hits [2xLP]
Because Music
September 5, 2025 -
Florence + The Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Blue Marble) [2xLP]
Republic Records
August 29, 2025 -
Sally Shapiro Ready To Live A Lie (Baby Pink) [2xLP]
Universal UK
July 11, 2025 -
Petey USA The Yips
Capitol
July 11, 2025 -
Sabrina Carpenter Man's Best Friend (Translucent Light Brown; Amazon Exclusive)
Island
August 29, 2025 -
Pete Droge Fade Away Blue
Missing Piece Records
August 22, 2025 -
Common Holly Anything Glass (White)
Keeled Scales
August 1, 2025 -
Sydney Minsky Sargeant Lunga [2xLP]
Domino Record Co
September 12, 2025 -
Playboi Carti Die Lit [2xLP]
AWGE/Interscope
June 27, 2025 -
Death Pill Sologamy (Frosted Transparent)
New Heavy Sounds
July 4, 2025 -
Idina Menzel Original Broadway Cast of Redwood Redwood Original Broadway Cast Recording [2xLP]
Masterworks Broadway
July 25, 2025 -
Motorhead The Manticore Tapes
Bmg
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