The Sight Below - Glider

****4-panel gatefold jacket with a matte finish****

There’s a beating heart buried in the cold landscape of Glider, a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the album’s echoing, looped drones and pulls the listener swiftly through the snow. By pinning barely-there electronic beats to his wisps of guitar melody, the Seattle-based producer turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music.

There’s a separation of elements in The Sight Below’s songs that’s almost meteorological in nature: Tendrils of treated guitar trail lazy patterns in the sky like the Aurora Borealis (“At First Touch”), flicker in the distance like heat lightning (“Dour”), or expand and contract like time-lapse cloud formations (“Life’s Fading Light”); running along beneath, nearly obscured by the airborne phenomena, is an ever-present beat, which ranges from the mud-puddle throb in “Without Motion” to the tiny, insistent high-hats in “A Fractured Smile.” The tracks evolve at a deliberated pace, but as the tones overlap and the rhythms build, time oozes to a halt and hangs in blissfully frost-bitten suspended animation.

With Glider, The Sight Below has created a work of vertiginous sonic depth and exquisite melancholy: techno music for a dark, brooding night.

Originally released on CD in 2008

Released for the first time on vinyl in a LIMITED EDITION OF 350 for Europe/UK

LP mastered by Lawrence English (Room 40)

2xLP includes an unreleased, vinyl ONLY Remix from Pantha Du Prince

Digital version include 5 extra tracks from past EP’s not made available + an unreleased Eluvium remix

CD version is out of print

Includes a download card of the digital bonus version

TRACKLISTING:

A1. At First Touch
A2. Dour
A3. Without Motion
A4. Life’s Fading Light
B1. The Sunset Passage
B2. Already There
B3. A Fractured Smile
B4. Further Away
C1. Nowhere
C2. No Place For Us
C3. With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)
D1. Life’s Fading Light (Pantha Du Prince Remix)*
D2. The Sunset Passage (Biosphere Remix)*

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