Facit - Beach Music

No comment on the Brexit nonsense that causes shipments from Europe to take so long and on with the positives... Beach Music is an ocean-sized volte face from Facit, a Swedish duo who i've only previously known for their early-decade minimal wave and synthpop (which is excellent btw, and well worth your time). On Beach Music, they're reduced to just Joakim Karlsson, and with that paring back of personnel goes almost every other aspect of their sound bar guitar. Not sure why they've kept the Facit name for something so different, but i suppose this kind of reimagining of self is what lockdown does to people. Recorded on the island of Hono just outside of Gothenburg, Beach Music is not quite as idyllic sounding as its name or genesis might suggest. These are by no means the golden sands of paradise. More like the dunes at the end of McCarthy's The Road. Like Dave Pajo's Aerial M work, or a solo rendering of Come On Die Young/early Godspeed, this series of guitar delay-heavy sketches are the bridges between the storms, all darkening-cloud portent and slowly-encroaching doom. While my guitar gently creeps business. This comes via Discreet for a reason, of course, who seem to be good at this kind of artful rendering of the dark. I've got that Godspeed lyric circling in my head, 'They don't sleep anymore on the beach'...Super limited obvs