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CD
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DBL 014CD
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$14.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
The album artwork reproduces the strands woven through the album's emotional core. The hazy image has the soft, pliant edges of a memory. You're delivered to a dappled glade in the Legend of Zelda game that you played as a child, a glowing 16-bit respite from danger. And danger is present - just as darkness circles the sun-kissed lakeside, threatening noises rattle at the periphery of even the most vulnerable, blissed-out tracks. Machines gurgle with hydraulic glee, swords ring out as they are unsheathed, and indistinct voices mutter as they stomp just past your bedroom door. Balconi's use of tension is masterful -- glowing chords ripple outwards, and technicolor harmonies shiver before drifting leftwards to an unsettling discordance. Opening track "Rideau Perle" is a defining statement. Its wrought melancholy and driving arrangement drop you off at an entirely different location from where you started. Deft percussion, such as on "Dame De Pique," drags you along by the scruff off the neck for a hyperreal Bildungsroman. When a gruff narrator calls for the layers of glistening and grinding noise to drop out, just a pearlescent melody remains. It's a deep breath within a deep breath.
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