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01. Blank Gloss - Those Who Plant
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02. Blank Gloss - Rags
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03. Blank Gloss - Walking Toward The End
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04. Blank Gloss - Hollowed Out
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05. Blank Gloss - Virga
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06. Blank Gloss - Strewn All Over
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07. Blank Gloss - Speaking Quietly
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08. Blank Gloss - Of A Vessel
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09. Blank Gloss - Almost Home
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10. Blank Gloss - Stained Glass
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ARTIST
BLANK GLOSS
TITLE
Melt
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
KOMPAKT
CATALOG #
KOMP 174CD
KOMP 174CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2022
Melt
is the debut full-length album by
Blank Gloss
, the Sacramento duo of
Patrick Hills
and
Morgan Fox
. Attentive listeners will recall their lovely contribution to Kompakt's
Pop Ambient 2021
, "Of A Vessel", which reappears here; others might know their 2020 mini-album,
January
, released on the stylish Miami label, Night Young. With
Melt
, Blank Gloss make a heavy contribution to Kompakt's ongoing explorations of the hundreds of hues of Pop Ambience. A lush dream of an album, it's a remarkable index of the gilded eternities that you can magic from a reduced tonal palette: glistening guitars, ruminative piano, warps and weaves of subtle drone and hum. The two members of Blank Gloss met through their shared involvement in punk and experimental music. Fox's band had recorded at Hills' Earthtone studio a number of times; they hit it off and made the decision to explore making music together. Their initial explorations resulted in their mini-album,
January
; for
Melt
, they aimed for something more minimal and improvised. Choosing not to spend too much time hyper-focused on any one thing freed Fox and Hills to make music that's guided by intuition, inhabiting the moment and reaching for the next surprising possibility. The long reels of e-bow guitar that wind through opener "Those Who Plant" ease the listener into an album that says plenty by doing less: witness the dream scripts that play out through pieces like "Hollowed Out" and "Of A Vessel", the gentle weightlessness of "Almost Home", or the clusters of guitar, expressive yet restrained, that sculpt "Rags" into being. It's an album that feels sui generis, somehow, much as it clearly sits within a number of fields -- pop ambient, touches of new age and drone music. Some provisional clues, though, for music that echoes
Melt
's loveliness: the humble ambience of the artists on Cold Blue Music; the eventless horizon of
Bark Psychosis
' "Pendulum Man"; the emotive pointillism of
Labradford
; some of the snippets of song that drift through
Pieter Nooten
and
Michael Brook
's
Sleeps With The Fishes
. Like all of this music,
Melt
embraces a radical ambiguity, one that allows the listener to enter the frame and inhabit the corners of the duo's music. There's pleasure and joy here too, of course -- you can hear it in the ease of the playing and the beauty of the melodies that Blank Gloss carefully dapple across the tonal field.
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