#16 Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental

Delicate Features return to us with a beautifully beguiling blend of folk, electronica, and heavenly melodic escape. Pavel Diakov and Radmila Nikogosian, the duo behind Delicate Features, are London-based and allow their Armenian-Georgian roots to speak through their music. Since making their debut in 2012, they have released on our label as well as Cellar Tapes and Not Not Fun Records, always exploring immersive soundscapes that invite listeners deep into their world. Their music is a majestic mix of trip-hop, new age, medieval lament, and ambient reverie. They have cited Latvian folk songs, funereal black metal, Muslimgauze, and metaphysics as inspiration before, and they have now again created a stirring sound world with this EP. The blissful 'Memory Gardens' is a quiet yet bright mix of smeared vocals, gentle harmonics, and found-sound percussion, riding sparse, broken beats that transfix body and mind. 'Teenage Lightning' is an ascent to the stars on rising synth loops that glisten and glow with a cathartic, escapist eect. The gorgeous 'In Bloom' is a painterly sound, with heat-emitting chords, gently bubbly, rubbery drums, and choral vocals that slowly swirl around in a heavenly nebula. It's a restorative sound with an angelic soul and 'Error Screens' agains hypnotises with liquid melodies, glossy synth repeats and churchy architecture that feels profound. It's a seamless mix of the organic and the synthetic with a mathematical charm that moves body and soul. 'Old Brook' is a quiet lament - an ambient soundscape for late-night reflection and emotional rebirth. Arwork by Daniel Rajcsanyi.

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