Stadiums & Shrines

Clearly

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It’s been a few years since the Kites have sailed at all.

Mario took a break, on his own terms. Eventually, he began composing again… discarding & restarting, until this distance itself became the heart of his new material. A spectrum of circumstances—positive and negative, harmonious and dissonant—lead to Motivated / Unmotivated, the first ever Kites Sail High full-length release. As its title suggests, the album is a very personal statement about the creative process: one that follows a narrative arc. This makes hearing “Clearly” on its own slightly bittersweet; to reveal that ultimate, blissful, cloud-parting moment at the apex without first sulking in the rain. The track is a timeless hybrid—avant pop, ambient, hip hop—deftly lifting from some lost motown of the mind. Inside its sampled lyrics, the autobiographical links are rather direct: an artist flipping his perspective in order to see the world straight again.

Motivated / Unmotivated is out today in tape format on Patient Sounds.

New World

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A visualizer, or rather an “audio/visual wildlife database experience”, “New World” lives up to its name. The 16 minutes access some other space, open to interact with both intensely and passively. Cues are of course taken from this gorgeous, cerebral nod-along by Chase Hudson aka Foothills, which sweeps the entire B side of a cassette of the same name. Melodica, Moog, Rhodes, AM radio, drum machine… these are well-crafted soundscapes, rich and precise, and as of today, available through Patient Sounds.

Slow House Virtual

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Night hangs differently; the bedroom anchored in a slow glow, the neighborhood spins…

Chemists // 化学者 is Virginia-based artist Danny Bozella. To date the project has collected Bozella’s solo experiments away from Rem’s Floating Chandelier. With Slow House Virtual he’s focused in on a sound, fusing wobbly guitar work with atmospheric beatmaking. While still abstract and fleeting, together the sketches make for a rather warm, transcendent little listen here.

Dreams of Austria with Candy Claws

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A milky bridge rolls over the alps of Zell am See. Morning glory foreign.

Somewhere in the valley, a cathedral bellows. Organ cries ricochet in thermal currents.

A great lift; the wings respond.

White horses prance below, their lines written loosely across the vast face of the mossy glade.

Curiously charmed, the passengers wish this drift to last—to reach some zephyr’s summit, or recede into the lost sanctuary. Or even to arrive in the company of extinct creatures.

Alas, the shade casts across the patchwork, racing to meet the glider as its brief voyage hovers to an elegant halt.

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Candy Claws are no strangers to lands dreamt or hidden. We’re honored they decided to hang here with us, coincidentally right before backpacking the Austrian Alps in reality, which is roughly where they are at the moment. Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time, their 4th full length album, is due out June 25th on twosyllable.