Phoenecia - Brownout

Criminally underrated! The best album released on Schematic (except for perhaps o9's full-length), with some of the best production I've ever heard; even the album art is just about perfect. A series of fully realized ambient soundscapes (with some minimal dub/idm elements), and a radical departure from their earlier (and later) stuff. Like walking through cavernous office buildings in a deserted industrial city, in the middle of the night; the most concrete palpable presence of an atmosphere/mood evoked by sound that I can recall having heard ...