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Beacon
Gravity Pairs
Beacon's third full-length record enters sight as a work of meticulous revision and refraction. Returning home to New
York in 2016, four years and several tours since the duo's first release with Ghostly International, Thomas Mullarney
III and Jacob Gossett knew the next direction would be different. Together they embarked on open-ended sessions,
adopting a more linear style of songwriting compared to their previous loop and texture-driven method. They
fundamentally constructed demos from piano chords and guitar phrases with vocal melodies, editing iterations almost ad
infinitum, looking through each from a multitude of angles. Compositions expanded, while others pared back to where they
began. Like the bending of light, this abstractive and patient process outlines a space and scale in which seemingly
separate colors -minimalist ballads, elaborate pop spirituals, and four-on-the-floor dance sequences- can coexist at
different speeds, fanning out with spectral cohesion. A prismatic collection Beacon call 'Gravity Pairs'. On 'Gravity
Pairs', Beacon channel the philosophy with
pure pop mystique, slicing through dense and foggy dance and electronic music apparatuses to create something familiar
but unique, melodic but cathartic. Rippling through these songs are iridescent synthesizer lines, stoic piano phrasing,
dazzling percussion, posh harpsichord, understated xylophone, and a crisp voice in complete control. Taken as a whole,
in their various combinations and compressions, these complementary and secondary tones unlock the lushest field of
color, a universe of light.
Price
€ 16.95
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
02-11-2018
Label
Item-nr
469771
EAN
0804297832722
Availability
Exp. 02-11-2018