Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 22 Jan, 2009.

From the imperial stables of ambience, Infraction records, gallops a champion stallion going by the name of No Traces, a fine 2 headed beast. It's creators Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 throw woozy waves of languid synth at your ears, morphing underneath a constant roll of earthy static whilst distant hazy yodels and meandering piano tones crawl quietly beneath the beautiful murk. You really need headphones to appreciate the many layers on this album. Some of it sounds like a worn down Tangerine Dream record, what with the absorbing melee of fuzz surrounding the blissed gusts of pacifying emotive drone underneath. On 'Blooming Woods' a flute (or maybe a piccolo or some wild reed instrument) goes joyously dancing in and around your lug holes but there's this dreamy detachment about it's snaky progress that makes it sound like it's being played outside your front door, waiting to be allowed entry! Overall i'm reminded of Pole's classic trilogy of crackle & static gems under laid with the essence of Global Communication's '76:14', this is a very beautiful 8 tracker full of stately drones, moving tones, ghostly effects, subtle percussive delights & profoundly moving passages, full of wonder & intrigue. A gorgeous package too, with INITIAL copies arriving with a bonus 3" in a little booklet and some designer postcards, all housed in a posh laminated card gatefold. A labour of love indeed from our Russian friends, and I mean friends. They can stay at mine anyday if this is the kind of noise they make!

Long awaited full-length from this Beautumn side project, Sleepy Town Manufacture, in collaboration with Russian artist, Unit 21.
This is a full-length travelogue into the hills and dales of a lush Russian landscape. A.M. radio crackles distantly with beatless waves permeating the still air. Alexander (STM) worked with Stanislavs' (Unit 21) library of sounds, he sampled some old vinyl records, pitch-shifted them down to a slow crawl, and then delved into a myriad of slow sounds, with an array of careful layers emerging.
Deluxe packaging edition of 800 copies - mini-lp Japanese style gatefold cover printed by California's own Stoughton printing, 5 separate art prints on 20 point chipboard stock.
Beautifully designed by graphic wunderkind Pyhai.

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