WINDY & CARL – Consciousness (Repress) – LP – Vinyl

LP – Black Vinyl Repress.

For the first time in almost twenty years, Windy & Carls second album for kranky, Consciousness, will be available on the vinyl format once again. The fourth album from Michigans premier space duo, again delivers their shimmering trademark wall of sound, beautiful vocalization, and delicate songcraw. Six sweet and easy new tracks recorded in their home studio in Dearborn, that driw and dream with layered guitars, keyboards, bass and a love-arsenal of delicious effects and distortion.

The duos music has traces of 1980s dream pop and 1990s slowcore, particularly Low, another married-couple band. Theres more to the comparison than ink on a certificate. Marriages suffering and devotion breed a particular kind of intimacy. Windy & Carl owen resemble an ambient version of Yo La Tengo, another group that centers on a long-wed duo and conveys a secret, profound sense of life beyond the music. PITCHFORK 7.2

There is an airy shaw of light that extends straight through these six extended pieces, offsetting the density of sound with a breezy loveliness thats almost impossible to articulate, towering on a floating sea of mesmerising, sub-level sounds. Boomkat

Genre descriptions such as ambient guitar soundscape, wall of sound and drone fail miserably to capture the astonishing, magical emotional beauty of their pieces.
Cyclic Defrost

Tracklist:

Side A
1. The Sun [3:43]
2. Balance (Trembling) [8:42]
3. Elevation [10:23]

Side B
1. The Llama’s Dream [5:09]
2. Consciousness [12:44]
3. Resolution [5:00]