WINDY & CARL
Consciousness
Boomkat Product Review:
Windy & Carl's 2001 masterpiece is finally available again - for the first time in 20 years - and it still sounds as magical as it did way back when. Sublime, near-cosmic ambience that's struck through with airy drift motifs; a foundational, crucial listen if you're into Roy Montgomery, Loren Connors, Stars of the Lid, Durutti.
The Michigan-based duo had already established their sound on ’Portal' and 'Depths', successfully sculpting Robin Guthrie's gossamer riffs and Brian Eno's pillowy drones into their own unique thing - a weightless answer to Flying Saucer Attack's rainier fuzz-fwd ambience. 'Consciousness' arrived just before Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a brief hiatus, and felt like an almost casual endeavour; they really had nothing to prove by that point, and were able to just freely lean into their process with layered washes of guitar, drone vortexes and sugared, breathy vocals.
The title track features almost 13 minutes of of gently ecstatic strums that freeze you in time until Weber's voice hums through the atmosphere like a dazzling ray of sunlight. In our minds, it's an almost hypnagogic take on Popol Vuh's late-period guitar mantras: the repetition and raga-like quality is intact, but the clouded harmonies sound as if they've wafted over from Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. The duo are less corporeal elsewhere, melting their guitar tones into oozing, low-end throbs on 'Balance (Trembling)' and contrasting them with a pulsating, hypnotic rhythm, using delay and reverb to transform their strums into a celestial fanfare on the jubilant 'Elevation'.
When they play us out with 'Resolution', their instruments swell into orchestral dimensions, buzzing and scraping like cello notes playing a heart-piercing requiem. It's a damn good reminder of just how much influence the duo exerted on contemporary drift music, there's still no one else that does it quite that way.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Windy & Carl's 2001 masterpiece is finally available again - for the first time in 20 years - and it still sounds as magical as it did way back when. Sublime, near-cosmic ambience that's struck through with airy drift motifs; a foundational, crucial listen if you're into Roy Montgomery, Loren Connors, Stars of the Lid, Durutti.
The Michigan-based duo had already established their sound on ’Portal' and 'Depths', successfully sculpting Robin Guthrie's gossamer riffs and Brian Eno's pillowy drones into their own unique thing - a weightless answer to Flying Saucer Attack's rainier fuzz-fwd ambience. 'Consciousness' arrived just before Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a brief hiatus, and felt like an almost casual endeavour; they really had nothing to prove by that point, and were able to just freely lean into their process with layered washes of guitar, drone vortexes and sugared, breathy vocals.
The title track features almost 13 minutes of of gently ecstatic strums that freeze you in time until Weber's voice hums through the atmosphere like a dazzling ray of sunlight. In our minds, it's an almost hypnagogic take on Popol Vuh's late-period guitar mantras: the repetition and raga-like quality is intact, but the clouded harmonies sound as if they've wafted over from Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. The duo are less corporeal elsewhere, melting their guitar tones into oozing, low-end throbs on 'Balance (Trembling)' and contrasting them with a pulsating, hypnotic rhythm, using delay and reverb to transform their strums into a celestial fanfare on the jubilant 'Elevation'.
When they play us out with 'Resolution', their instruments swell into orchestral dimensions, buzzing and scraping like cello notes playing a heart-piercing requiem. It's a damn good reminder of just how much influence the duo exerted on contemporary drift music, there's still no one else that does it quite that way.
Boomkat Product Review:
Windy & Carl's 2001 masterpiece is finally available again - for the first time in 20 years - and it still sounds as magical as it did way back when. Sublime, near-cosmic ambience that's struck through with airy drift motifs; a foundational, crucial listen if you're into Roy Montgomery, Loren Connors, Stars of the Lid, Durutti.
The Michigan-based duo had already established their sound on ’Portal' and 'Depths', successfully sculpting Robin Guthrie's gossamer riffs and Brian Eno's pillowy drones into their own unique thing - a weightless answer to Flying Saucer Attack's rainier fuzz-fwd ambience. 'Consciousness' arrived just before Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a brief hiatus, and felt like an almost casual endeavour; they really had nothing to prove by that point, and were able to just freely lean into their process with layered washes of guitar, drone vortexes and sugared, breathy vocals.
The title track features almost 13 minutes of of gently ecstatic strums that freeze you in time until Weber's voice hums through the atmosphere like a dazzling ray of sunlight. In our minds, it's an almost hypnagogic take on Popol Vuh's late-period guitar mantras: the repetition and raga-like quality is intact, but the clouded harmonies sound as if they've wafted over from Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. The duo are less corporeal elsewhere, melting their guitar tones into oozing, low-end throbs on 'Balance (Trembling)' and contrasting them with a pulsating, hypnotic rhythm, using delay and reverb to transform their strums into a celestial fanfare on the jubilant 'Elevation'.
When they play us out with 'Resolution', their instruments swell into orchestral dimensions, buzzing and scraping like cello notes playing a heart-piercing requiem. It's a damn good reminder of just how much influence the duo exerted on contemporary drift music, there's still no one else that does it quite that way.
Boomkat Product Review:
Windy & Carl's 2001 masterpiece is finally available again - for the first time in 20 years - and it still sounds as magical as it did way back when. Sublime, near-cosmic ambience that's struck through with airy drift motifs; a foundational, crucial listen if you're into Roy Montgomery, Loren Connors, Stars of the Lid, Durutti.
The Michigan-based duo had already established their sound on ’Portal' and 'Depths', successfully sculpting Robin Guthrie's gossamer riffs and Brian Eno's pillowy drones into their own unique thing - a weightless answer to Flying Saucer Attack's rainier fuzz-fwd ambience. 'Consciousness' arrived just before Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a brief hiatus, and felt like an almost casual endeavour; they really had nothing to prove by that point, and were able to just freely lean into their process with layered washes of guitar, drone vortexes and sugared, breathy vocals.
The title track features almost 13 minutes of of gently ecstatic strums that freeze you in time until Weber's voice hums through the atmosphere like a dazzling ray of sunlight. In our minds, it's an almost hypnagogic take on Popol Vuh's late-period guitar mantras: the repetition and raga-like quality is intact, but the clouded harmonies sound as if they've wafted over from Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. The duo are less corporeal elsewhere, melting their guitar tones into oozing, low-end throbs on 'Balance (Trembling)' and contrasting them with a pulsating, hypnotic rhythm, using delay and reverb to transform their strums into a celestial fanfare on the jubilant 'Elevation'.
When they play us out with 'Resolution', their instruments swell into orchestral dimensions, buzzing and scraping like cello notes playing a heart-piercing requiem. It's a damn good reminder of just how much influence the duo exerted on contemporary drift music, there's still no one else that does it quite that way.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Windy & Carl's 2001 masterpiece is finally available again - for the first time in 20 years - and it still sounds as magical as it did way back when. Sublime, near-cosmic ambience that's struck through with airy drift motifs; a foundational, crucial listen if you're into Roy Montgomery, Loren Connors, Stars of the Lid, Durutti.
The Michigan-based duo had already established their sound on ’Portal' and 'Depths', successfully sculpting Robin Guthrie's gossamer riffs and Brian Eno's pillowy drones into their own unique thing - a weightless answer to Flying Saucer Attack's rainier fuzz-fwd ambience. 'Consciousness' arrived just before Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a brief hiatus, and felt like an almost casual endeavour; they really had nothing to prove by that point, and were able to just freely lean into their process with layered washes of guitar, drone vortexes and sugared, breathy vocals.
The title track features almost 13 minutes of of gently ecstatic strums that freeze you in time until Weber's voice hums through the atmosphere like a dazzling ray of sunlight. In our minds, it's an almost hypnagogic take on Popol Vuh's late-period guitar mantras: the repetition and raga-like quality is intact, but the clouded harmonies sound as if they've wafted over from Slowdive's 'Pygmalion'. The duo are less corporeal elsewhere, melting their guitar tones into oozing, low-end throbs on 'Balance (Trembling)' and contrasting them with a pulsating, hypnotic rhythm, using delay and reverb to transform their strums into a celestial fanfare on the jubilant 'Elevation'.
When they play us out with 'Resolution', their instruments swell into orchestral dimensions, buzzing and scraping like cello notes playing a heart-piercing requiem. It's a damn good reminder of just how much influence the duo exerted on contemporary drift music, there's still no one else that does it quite that way.
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