: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Windy & Carl : Album.......: Allegiance and Conviction : : Label.......: Kranky .. .:.. . Genre.......: Ambient : Catnr.......: KRANK226 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-07-23 Str.date....: 2020-03-27 Quality.....: 242kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. The Stranger 4:32 2. Recon 6:42 3. Moth To The Flame 9:04 4. Alone 6:29 5. Will I See The Dawn 5:47 6. Crossing Over 5:51 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 38:25 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 70.46 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Divine, endlessly reverberating dream-pop from the much loved :, : Windy & Carl, reprising and refining their very special brand of : :' shimmering shoegaze vistas on their first album proper since ': ,: 2012. :, : : :' Born in dream-popÆs second wind, when it shifted further into ': ,: etheric margins after 4AD brought it to near mainstream acclaim :, : during the æ80s, Windy & Carl were at the eye of a slow moving : :' sound emerging from Chicago and centring around the Kranky ': ,: label in the æ90s, whom theyÆve become synonymous with over the :, : years. : :' ': ,: With æAllegiance and ConvictionÆ WindyÆs vocals are again an :, : elusive, poetic presence, drifting in and out of focus to : :' channel Nico at her smokiest, or even one of the alien spirit ': ,: voices collated in the gorgeous Tongues Of Light sides, and all :, : typically bathed in their deeply anaesthetised sound, smudging : :' the guitar style of Robin Guthrie into imaginary infinity. ': ,: :, : Windy & Carl have been crafting inner space electric guitar and : :' bass vistas for nearly three decades now, but their latest ': ,: feels as vital and vaporous as any peak opus in their vast :, : catalog. Subtly more succinct than their previous albums, : :' æAllegiance and ConvictionÆ finds Carl HultgrenÆs guitar ': ,: amassed in pillowy layers of bass and cirrus timbral :, : iridescence, feeling out sound stage settings for Windy that : :' shift from the chthonic, sepulchral drone-pop majesty of æThe ': ,: StrangerÆ, and the breezier pastoral relief of æReconÆ, to the :, : densely forested fug that mask her in æAloneÆ, while the : :' shimmering instrumental hope of æWill I See the DawnÆ pays up ': ,: in quietly cathartic effect up in the romantic guitar strokes :, : and decaying angelic chorales that cradle WindyÆs fading spirit : :' on the closer æCrossing OverÆ. Lend an ear and youÆll be richly ': ,: rewarded. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/