landing soon!
From the label that delivered the Delphian ambi-pop of Prin€ss and Frog of Earth comes this second long-player of shimmering, glitched electronics from the prosaically named but otherwise anonymous Dublin. Aside from the label association, Heavy Dublin arrives free of any biographical context, which is a canny move for music of this nature, imbuing it with a sense of mystery that encourages a little reading behind the lines/devising of your own impressions. Sonically, we're broadly in the post-Ulla/West Mineral (and the like) territory, a combination of glassy synths, implaccable layered strings and ambient drift, that gestures towards the Fourth World and Kanko Ongaku while also feeling like a very contemporary kind of emo(tional)-ambient electronic production. Let's boldly (aren't we brave!) assume from the name that whoever is behind this is based in the titular city, and the music vaguely sits within the context of its current formations - the aforementioned Prin€ss and Frog of Earth as well as Nashpaints, Mel Keane solo work, Moze and such like, though of course this kind of sound is now diffuse worldwide, and there's particular resonance with the gentle poeticism of the Daisart label in Australia (more on them elsewhere this week). Which is to say, just like sadness and longing, the wordless language of modern ambient song is a universal one.
FFO: picnic, Frog of Earth, Ulla, Nashpaints
