Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle

Label: sferic – sferic 003
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Clear
Country: UK
Released: Jul 19, 2018
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Field Recording, Ethereal

Classic ’60s surf-rock channeled into hazy ambient zones...LA's Jake Muir constructs a poignant sound world crafted from samples of a well loved American pop group smudged with aqueous field recordings made everywhere from Iceland to the beaches of California.

In nine succinct scenes, the results loosely limn a wide sense of space and place with its fading harmonic auroras and glinting, half-heard surf rock melodies rendered in an abstract impressionist manner that suggests a fine tracing of in-between-spaces, perhaps describing metropolitan sprawl giving way to vast mountain ranges and oceanic scales. But for all its implied sense of space, ultimately there’s a paradoxically close intimacy to proceedings which feels like you’re the passenger in Muir’s ride, and he patently knows the scenic route.

Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Released through Manchester-based record label sferic.

A1. High Tide
A2. Lapis Lazuli
A3. Shoal
A4. Yaupon
A5. Peacock's Tail
B1. Green Eyes
B2. Buoy
B3. Drifter
B4. Lanterns Below