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01. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Listen
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02. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Plumb
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03. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Star Shine
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04. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Trace
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05. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Marine
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06. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Only
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07. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Freefall
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08. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Orbit
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09. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Cascade
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10. THE SMOKE CLEARS - Sleep Now
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ARTIST
SMOKE CLEARS, THE
TITLE
Listen
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
FURTHER RECORDS
CATALOG #
FUR 080CD
FUR 080CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/14/2014
Those who know the respected Irish producer
John Daly
for his bubbly, melodically-nuanced house and techno tracks may get thrown off balance by his latest work under the
Smoke Clears
handle. While his 2011 release for Further,
Sea Level
, hinted at his fondness for
Manuel Göttsching
/
Klaus Schulze
-like kosmische ambience, on
Listen
Daly veers off into more introverted and arcane abstraction terrain. The title-track kicks off the album on a decidedly downtempo, contemplative note while maintaining Daly's knack for understatedly beautiful melodies. It sounds like the best song Morr Music never released. "Plumb" exudes a paradoxically chilled and urgent aura, with woodblocks seemingly made out of ice and heavily reverbed claps providing the hypnotic rhythm. The glistening IDM of "Star Shine" could be an outtake from
Aphex Twin
's
Selected Ambient Works 1985-1992
(it's that gorgeous). The beautifully hoarfrost-y "Trace" evokes
Seefeel
's forays into fusing shoegaze atmospheres with abstract electronic beat matrices. With
Listen
, The Smoke Clears decisively steps off the dancefloor and enters one of the chilliest chill-out rooms a '90s clubber ever chilled in -- but the music's still a-bristle with all sorts of fascinating movement and textures. Despite
Listen
's banquet of ultra-cool tones, your neurons will work up a nice sweat.
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