After releasing music under his own name over the past three years, Chicago based experimental producer and musician Spencer Radcliffe has just dropped a new record under his lo-fi loop laden Blithe Field moniker. Face Always Toward The Sun is the first since the excellent Warm Blood released back in 2012. It also comes just months after his last release under his own name, Looking In, which we sadly overlooked here.
On Face… Blithe Field has again created an aquatic, yet sun-soaked like journey full of carefully created loops from all quarters topped off by ephemeral soundscapes that crackle from within and without. Substantive tracks like the gorgeous ‘Milkshakes In The Rain’ and the pensive ‘Secret Soda Machine as well as well as the twin 10 minute tracks, the pastoral ‘BKMDMA’ and the delicate crackle of ‘Bottoming Out’ are interspersed with 12 integral contributions that last between 1 and 2 minutes, providing for a work that is exactly the sum of all its parts.
Listen to our selected track, the aforementioned ‘Milkshakes In The Rain’ and watch the Brendan Zwieg directed video for the fuzzed out ‘Jimbo’ below. Grab the album digitally for a NYP arrangement here and on limited edition cassette here.
Tracklist
- Zen Den
- Sleeping Bags in a Row
- Outside the Den
- Testing the Waters
- Milkshakes in the Rain
- In The Tunnels
- Scaling Alden at Night
- Morgan
- Secret Soda Machine
- Jimbo
- Everything Speeds Up
- BKMDMA
- Paul’s Birthday
- Bottoming Out
- Chia Seeds & Apple Juice
- Ashleigh & AJ’s Attic
- Finally Understanding
- Endless Days at Strouds
- Moving Out
Milkshakes in the Rain
Blithe Field (USA)
From the album, ‘Face Always Toward The Sun’, Orchid Tapes.
Audio Stream
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Jimbo
Blithe Field (USA)
From the album, ‘Face Always Toward The Sun’, Orchid Tapes.
Official Video