Yet another release that thus far has managed to evade our listening attention is the second full length from Anzio Green via rednetic. The eagle eyed among you might recall us mentioning the arrival of this in despatches a few weeks back when we fell headlong in adoration of the teaser track ‘fall down’ for those among you not paying attention first time of asking Anzio Green is a collaborative tour de force pairing together Wil Bolton of Cheju fame with Mark Streatfield better known amongst the electronica buying community as Cyan341. To judge by titles alone, you’d imagine ‘a day without distance’ to be an overtly sombre affair, all hint at detachment or at the very least a furtherance from some point now regretted. True there is detachment but its a detachment that, while intimate and secluded is, once found welcoming. Blending ambient structures, atmospheric landscapes, dreamy lullabies, drone dialects, the occasional shoe gaze and a liberal side serving of dub accents, listening wise ‘a day without distance’ is best experienced in a quiet place preferably in the still of the night with the volume cranked up, that way you can submerge yourself in its panoramic purr. As said a breathless ambient sound board that opens to the Oriental murmurs of ‘morning tea’ here sweetly thawed amid ice chipped cavernous tonalities and lushly dusted in a lilting fusion of fairy tale enchantment and noir classicism. The sets most outright pop moment comes with the appearance of the glitch glazed dream pop of ‘fall down’ which features a guest appearance by Kate Tustain on vocals whose softly entrancing ethereal murmurs silkily serve to act as a guide light for the unfurling spectral symphony whose snow shimmered sighs purr with subtle seduction of Cocteau-ian bliss. ‘thunderstorm’ initially draws from Roy Montgomery’s ‘true’, the atmospherics charged in electricity and drizzled in foreboding, just when you think proceedings are veering to a climatic crescendo without warning or sign the vibe suddenly turns tail to undergo what can only be described as a form of renewal whereupon unfurls something couched in a timeless grandeur spirited along apparition by neo classical flurries and choral whispers to recall old school Biosphere whilst simultaneously touching base with a mid career Wau! Mr modo back catalogue. With its intricate details and eye for the minutiae the utterly alluring ‘sorry for all the mistakes’ is subsumed in the kind of milky mirages and deftness and slender riffmanship not to mention poise and purpose that marks out and defines the less is more spectral grace of yellow6 and Vini Reilly before him. With its reverb soaked shimmers and ethereal choral whispers ‘a day without distance’ is draped in an alluring spectacle of romantically purred nocturnal elegance, sedately steeled in stilled sophistication it could easily be a tiny moment freeze framed from a Cure c. ‘pornography’ and ‘faith’ cut viewed under a magnifying lens and reframed onto an expansive airless cosmic canvas and rephrased into a consuming bliss kissed vapour trailing dub dimpled pulsar. If humble opinions count for anything we’d warrant that the parting ‘never go back’ serves as the sets best moment, a glacial dub lovely all lolloping motifs, playful lunar fanfares which in truth sound like the work of an impishly stoned gathering of Clangers and smoked out drifting crystalline riffs surrendering beneath sultry skylines which when all gathered together assume a woozy afterglow not to say skirt ever so inquisitively around the outer edges of the ghost box sonic perimeter whilst subtly paying an admiring glance towards Land of Nod. http://www.rednetic.com
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