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Drawn, by Northern (CD on Infraction)

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Rating: happy This record left our Mingus Rude feeling happy.

A very very pleasant ambient drift style electronica CD from our friends at Infraction Records. It's by Northern, who are a duo providing us with an eleven track collection of epic proportions. "Drawn" is slow, warm, meandering and yet still captivating. Long droning tones, lush synth pads and the kind of atmospheric quality associated with the more minimal moments of Kompakt (say about five years ago) or Kilbride's finest; Pub. Limited press with bonus CD for the first 150, of which we have a handful.

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Northern's debut offering, another in Infraction's sweet sleep-stream of supine-inclined ambience, are bros of Canada, Davin and Kevin Chong, dealers in heating up cool digitalia with toasty warm sample food. Drawn is a study in turning lost to found sound, capturing momentary guitar passes, and releasing them, subtly altered, into enduring motifs, finding felicity in the fleeting and making it stay awhile to become compelling. What happens is that this Northern music initially seems to drift by asking nothing from you, but you gradually find yourself, oddly, wanting from it. And it yields graciously. In being quiet, unwanting, you want to be quiet with it. It's the New Quiet.
 
The album opens with 'Coasting' in zones that distantly recall those charted by Loscil (Submers and First Narrows), the aqueous becoming a subtle leitmotif (cf. the later 'Pacific). The architecture becomes more digitally-enhanced, espousing sound 12k principles. Shuttle358, Taylor Deupree, and Fourcolor would all seem to be Northern touchstones, sharing a similar delight in deployment of small gesture processed loopstrata, fluting, floating, fibrillating – at once a surface over which to skitter a glitch-scattter and a cushion for repose. No fear of Northern exposure here at the warmer end of digital, gently meshing textures, lapping into laptop. It's a deceptively small sound that can get big on you, like on 'Migrate', which dwells in semi-stasis just long enough to lull, then spills over with swells before slipping out of sight. Drawn's digital means of generation takes on an increasingly naturalistic sounding aspect helped by its manipulated guitar-enriched intake. The guitar tradition drawn on Drawn is the ostinato introspections and plucked intimacies of 1 mile North, Labradford, and Dan Abrams (Fenton). Ostensibly different from Infraction stable signature sound, it somehow sits comfortably within it.
 
The first 150 copies come bountifully endowed with a bonus cd-r, Jessa, a collection which signals the next phase in Northern development, though the seeds of Jessa's future-indicative are retievable from Drawn's present-past. It evidences a deeper denser dronier zone-out music, minimizing digital intervention and renouncing microsonic patter. The gestures here are towards a half-light almost-orchestralism, moving from the likes of Marsen Jules and the secular sacral of Eluvium, shoulder-to-shoulder with the submersible slowcore starriness of The Lid (whose time of greatest influence and recognition has finally now come).

Comes housed in a mini-lp gatefold sleeve.


 

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About the humble CD:

The CD is essentially a small portable face mirror which has an extra feature of being able to play music (through a thing known as a CD player). These CD's are a modern invention hence them being all shiny and digital. They can hold about 80 minutes of music and apparently are indestructible as you can smear jam on them and they still play (not as nourishing as toast mind you but when you're hungry.....). They sound crystal clear and are tiny convenient things. They lack the charm and warmth of their old analogue counterparts but their portability, convenience and ease of being duplicated make them a perfect thing of a thing for most folks. Jewel cases are the worst thing ever though and they really need to stop.

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