2010

VINYL FORMAT. Grant Cutler (formerly of Lookbook) plumbs the beauty of the synthesizers' sounds, pulling out tones that link 2012 to Tangerine Dream, to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, to Boards of Canada, and to Autechre. It's a love letter to the soft, otherworldly fuzziness and cool, austere alienness of the analog synth. Its airiness and space let you follow tones and looping sequences through subtle shifts and changes, the sound coloring whatever space the listener is in, just as Cutler's wonky tape deck colors the sound of the whole record. It's the kind of album you want to curl up and take a nap inside of.