Khotin - Beautiful You
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Khotin - Beautiful You
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Khotin Industries – KIND 001
Format: Cassette, Album, C54
Country: Canada
Released: Jul 3, 2018
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Downtempo
In a world of relentless noise, Beautiful You stands quietly to one side and watches. The second album from Edmonton's Khotin — originally released digitally in 2018 before Ghostly International recognised it deserved a physical life — arrives now on C54 cassette via his own Khotin Industries imprint, a format that suits the music's fundamentally private and personal character entirely.
The album carries the weight of a specific family history: the cover image depicts Khotin's mother and grandparents during their time as Russian refugees, and that sense of nostalgic displacement and longing permeates every warm, unhurried moment. Melodic lines develop organically in natural, unfussy forms — synth washes, found sound, birdsong and room tone grounding the listener before lifting them into the fragile liminal space of memory. Tracks like Water Soaked in Forever and Vacation hold us suspended in beauty without ever demanding anything in return. This is music that valorises the quiet gesture, that reminds us one word is sometimes enough — and that the simple moments, expressed with great discernment and skill, are often the ones that linger longest.
