Gi Gi - Dreamliner

Label: Quiet Time Tapes – QTT30
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: Sep 27, 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental, Trip Hop

#8 BEST ALBUMS OF 2024

Gi Gi returns to Quiet Time with a new album, Dreamliner. His last full-length for Quiet Time, Lumino Pleco, was built on familiar samples, melted into a skunky sludge. It evoked a heat-warped meditation cassette unearthed from a Goodwill located in a black hole. 

The Texas producer’s latest, Dreamliner, is comparably immediate and propulsive. Here, Gi Gi explores spacey, kosmische-laced trip-hop. At first, these eight tracks come across placid and twinkly — calling to mind glitter stars twinkling atop a navy canvas, or tropical sun beams cutting through crystal water. But a jaggedness becomes apparent when lended a focused ear. Beneath slow motion arpeggiations and lullaby melodies, dubby percussion and sound effects gnash and quiver.

1. Wicker
2. Dreamliner
3. Omnibus
4. Plume
5. Thistle (Thrown)
6. Dizzying
7. Microbi
8. Far-Flung