Name: Joe Davies - Shields In Full Sunlight
Brand: Smallville Records
SKU: smallvillelp16
Price: 32.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Your cart is empty

Continue shopping

Wampís of Guayabal & Aboutface - Los Bosquesinos

An intercultural collaboration with the Indigenous Wampís forest community living in the Peruvian Amazon: exploring evocative soundscapes and ancient nampet songs in the Wampís Territory, to support indigenous-led conservation, and initiatives against illegal deforestation and acts of ecocide.

SHOP NOW

DJ Trystero - Cantor’s Paradise

DJ Trystero presents his sophomore album Cantor’s Paradise for FELT. An untitled suite languishing in dub dissonance, elusive sounds suspended across the hazy plain.

SHOP NOW

Wrecked Lightship - Drained Strands

Peak Oil return with Wrecked Lightship’s second album 'Drained Strands'. Plunging listeners into a world of dubbed-out textures, scattered breaks, and billowing basslines - meticulously sculpted through the vision of Adam Winchester & Laurie Osborne.

SHOP NOW

Orchestroll - Corrosiv

Corrosiv is the sophomore album from Orchestroll on New York-based record label 29 Speedway. Originally conceived as a reflection on hybridity and bastardisation, the album deploys New Age and ambient compositional tropes as a launchpad, exposing their trite sanctity to the realities of corrosion.

SHOP NOW

Ben Shirken - H.D. Reliquary

Ben Shirken debut album H.D. Reliquary, comprises 11 tracks featuring collaborations with artists like Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger, Muein, and others. It blends acoustic instruments—such as trumpet, violin, upright bass, and cello—with electronic elements like Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

SHOP NOW

Rest Symbol - Rest Symbol LP

Originally released in 2023 as a limited edition CD, Rest Symbol get the vinyl treatment courtesy of Brain Foote's new imprint FO - music feels like trip-hop decomposing in real time - crumbled breaks drift off-grid and melt into caramel, viscous string phrases erode under layers of tape noise.

SHOP NOW

Oliver - Quiet Thud

Bristol-based North View Records launches its release schedule with the debut album from label founder Oliver. Titled Quiet Thud, the 11-track album delivers an immersive journey through electronic soundscapes, inspired by the vast, untamed beauty of the British coastline. Blending elements of techno, downtempo, ambient, and guitar-driven music, Quiet Thud offers a deeply atmospheric and genre-fluid experience.

SHOP NOW

Label: Smallville Records – smallvillelp16
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: Nov 24, 2023
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House

As the name goes, 'Shields In Full Sunlight' is the sound of redemption for Winter-struck sore ears. A compilation of soulful, delightfully dainty loops of sloppy summer wrapped on a disc, the Berlin-based artist Joe Davies bubbles to the surface with his deeply sublime debut album on Smallville Records.

If you are paying close attention, lucid dreamscapes of free-spirited warmth, like a desert oasis, spring into your mind in no less than a few minutes of solitary listening. In a group, if you may, expect to endorse a laid-back demeanour of a casual Sunday afternoon and doses of easy, endless lounging.

Peaking in reminiscence, the opening of the 8-track album with 'Hi Life' and 'Echo Form' is doused in thick basslines and buoyant low-key deep and dubby jams. Progressive and jittery drum pads on 'Two Hours Earth Room' float with ease, followed by its successor of flickering micro rhythms 'Smile and Wave', both personifying a groove that is a little wonky and very elegant.

The second half of the album kicks in hard with a full-body throb club heater 'Cygnus', drawn out in collaboration with Space Drum Meditation got all the right ingredients: a low-end bassline, looming amorphous synth on the top, strokes of acid and what seems like samples of recorded feminine giggles, cheeky and flirtatious. Another partnership with Johan Kaseta churns out the oh-so-lovely, glistening track 'AMY' with hazy, choppy chords, fuller beats and a nostalgic ambience, earning a grand spot in your poolside playlist.

Joe Davies's 'Shields In Full Sunlight' is a lasting adventure of long, tranquil moments, liquid-lush rhythm and kaleidoscopic daydreams of Spring. Simple, soft percussions, flirty tones and timbres front a cosy little immersive experience – unmissable.

Review by Asmi Shetty

A1. Hi Life feat. Ossia
A2. Echo Form
B1. Two Hours Earth Room
B2. Smile And Wave
C1. Cygnus feat. Space Drum Meditation
C2. AMY feat. Johan Kaseta
D1. Movement In The Breach
D2. Nefyn