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Detente - Ghosts

Detente - Ghosts

€11,00 EUR
€11,00 EUR
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Self-Released - CD
France, 2024
Indie / Electronic / Ethereal

Extremely addictive mix of shoegaze instrumentals, oozing voices and bittersweet  rave-like ambient by Parisian musician Detente. Quite a unique dreamlike blend of all those influences that have been big lately: Slowdive, Love Spirals Downwards, Sixpence None The Richer etc. A CD only release, but one of my favourites of 2024.


I'm sorry to say, but some of the best music released in recent years did not make it onto vinyl. CD, though highly unpopular as a format (no matter what music press articles tell you about CD's back in style), is the only cheap way to release music on a physical format for most musicians / small labels. Releasing a record has become ridiculously expensive and releasing music strictly online might drastically damage its lifespan. Cassette is an alternative, CD an even more affordable one.

Of course, I'd love a vinyl reissue of Ghosts, one of the releases i listen to the most in 2024, but I'm pretty happy with a CD, as I've been driving a lot this year, and my car is old, and all I can listen to are FM radio stations and CD's. As a matter of fact, Detente's music is quite a perfect driving companion: dreamlike soundscapes filled with waves and steamboat horns, Slowdive-esque guitar riffs, piercing electronic sounds on soft ambient tunes... this album's name fits it well. 

Ghosts gets us to hear the brightest side of hauntology, like a happily post-modern cousin of Leyland Kirby and Burial. Just like his fellow British "hauntologists", Detente is a very precise producer and the overall sound of Ghost is vast: it fills the room perfectly with bright reverbs, sharp arppegiators and detailed field recordings elements. An immersive listening experience that seems enhanced by the CD format and the infinite loop it create. Immersive, highly emotional and strangely universal: a beautiful trip down memory lane no matter when or where you were born. (M/M wholesale: shops, contact us)

Tracklist

  1. Poem
  2. From the moon
  3. Pale spectre
  4. Fog
  5. 1994
  6. X
  7. Muted
  8. Tide after tide
  9. The longest dream
  10. Ghost
  11. Halo
  12. From the stars
  13. Drifting away
  14. Till Dawn
  15. Pharos
  16. The bay

 

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