The tenth official full-length by St. Petersburg synth savant Vladimir Karpov aka X.Y.R. is a liquid suite of surreal tranquility, divined and designed to soundtrack the shimmering mysteries of underwater life: Aquarealm. Inspired by vintage Soviet cartoons, nature documentaries, and his own colorful aquarium fish, the album's seven songs share a mood of contemplative depths and dizzying beauty, adrift in deepwater currents and bioluminescent tides. Hazy tones swell and swirl while crystalline keys, loops, and echoes swim in the periphery, rising like bubbles to the surface. Karpov describes these compositions as flights of fantasy, born of an oceanic muse as idyllic as it is infinite. It's music simultaneously serene and cinematic, conjuring blue horizons of kelp forests swaying above rainbow reefs, casting shadowplay on sandy floors. A realm both real and imagined, submerged but transcendent, rippling from the mind's eye to the great beyond.
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Featured Upcoming Vinyl
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Pendulum Inertia [2xLP]
Virgin Music International
August 22, 2025 -
Wavves Spun (Yellow)
Many Hats Dist
August 1, 2025 -
Mark Stewart The Fateful Symmetry
Mute
July 11, 2025 -
Sinsaenum IN DEVASTATION
Earmusic
August 8, 2025 -
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Glassnote Music
July 18, 2025 -
Cam Muncey Cam Muncey & The Delusions Of Grandeur
Impressed
July 4, 2025 -
La Dispute No One Was Driving the Car (White/Red/Green) [2xLP]
Epitaph
September 5, 2025 -
White Reaper Only Slightly Empty
Blue Grape Music
September 26, 2025 -
Flyte Between You and Me
Nettwerk Records
August 29, 2025 -
Ludwig Göransson Sinners Score [2xLP]
Mutant
September 26, 2025 -
Signs of the Swarm To Rid Myself Of Truth
Century Media
August 22, 2025 -
The Band CAMINO NeverAlways (Amazon Exclusive; Apple Red)
Atlantic
July 25, 2025 -
Billy Joel The Nylon Curtain
Legacy Recordings
July 11, 2025 -
King Witch III (Splatter)
Listenable Records
July 25, 2025