This is the third release from Stourbridge experimental artist Adam Beckley, who uses samples and guitars to create enveloping freeform soundscapes. While his previous two EPs focused largely on walls of droning sound, the six tracks featured on Revere have eased up on this approach in favour of a more open, spacious style in which layers of harmonic and melodic phrases are gradually built up and intricately interwoven. The result is Beckley's most texturally rich and emotionally poignant recorded work to date.
'Unleashed, You Spoke' begins the album with a gentle shimmering sample which repeats hypnotically before opening up into dense, swirling melodies. This leads to the plaintive 'Freefall', whose sombre mood is carried into the slowly rising 'Bring Us Balance'. From here the listener is taken down into the depths of the stark, melancholic 'I Take the Form of Your Skeleton', and then lifted again by the delicate beauty of the title track. 'Take Me to the Secrets' brings the album to an understated conclusion, its haunting final note fading into muffled ambient noise and leaving the ears lingering. For fans of ambient, atmospheric music, Revere is essential listening.
Revere is out now via Carnage Club as a CD or can be downloaded from http://adambeckley.bandcamp.com. A cassette featuring artwork by Nathan Coyle is set for release soon. Adam Beckley is next playing at The Rose and Crown, Wordsley on Thursday 13 October so be there!
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