Andrew Deutsch - The Sun

How to describe the album… ? It’s pure sound, waves of texture, beatless, pulsing, strongly, surgingly rhythmic, a slow space, each track very similar yet so different. I played it down the phone to a friend of mine, and she said it sounded like an orchestra tuning up… a description that’s stuck with me, in terms of the tones and timbres of the sound.

I didn’t read the inlay card for a few days after I’d bought it, but when I had, an entire new area of appreciation opened up. The piece is made entirely from treated field recordings of the ocean—those waves of sound really are waves, surging back and forth on the beach in front of you. The recording seems suddenly to imbued with a whole new level of coarseness, detail and subtlety. It sounds natural, in other words…