A Peripheral Blur is the aural equivalent of an Atom Egoyen film, calm and lulling even while chaos and pure fear lap at the edges. More a series of sound collages than a collection of songs, Plotkin and Spybey have created a darkly ambient record in which guitar swells entrance the listener as primal, chthonic bursts of sound trigger aeons-deep dreams of terror and helplessness. It's as if you were sitting alone in the dark, and you knew that something was slowly emerging from the velvet ni...   [ read more ]

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"Designed for low-level listening," reads the liner notes, which is as good a way to describe this collaborative record as any other phrase. Embracing a dark, ambient style sure to appeal to fans of outfits like Lull -- as can especially be heard on the dank echo and ghostly moans of "Cloud Cover," probably the album's creepiest moment -- Mosquito Dream is a minimal series of compositions that still somehow suggests vast, open, and dead spaces. Drawing on a series of "deconstructions" recorded ...   [ read more ]

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