Emerging from a mirage of lucid dreams, Kazakh-based record label soak return with their third full-length release, ‘farewell the past‘, a haunting artefact of ambient and experimental electronics from Saint Petersburg-based sound sculptor yeyo.
Stepping into the soak universe via a radiant contribution to the label’s 2024 winter constellation, yeyo now steps into focus, dissolving genres with the quiet intensity of someone who’s spent more time listening to music of the paste than current tastemakers, triangulating a phantom signal between trip-hop, IDM and vaporous strains of ambient.
Our pick is ‘memory ocean’ – the final transmission from the album that feels like a liminal space that you arrive at in a dream you didn’t know you were dreaming. Opening with elongated arpeggios, it drifts with glacial elegance into a sonic architecture of melting ice and glitched reverberations. Fans of bblisss, West Mineral Ltd, xpq? and 3XL take note.
‘farewell the past‘ is scheduled for release 25th April via soak. Order a CD copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. look at me
2. indoor cloud
3. in sight (ft a b)
4. through sleep
5. nothing to do
6. flam 4 life (ft a b)
7. I wish I could take it all back
8. miss you
9. memory ocean