CELESTIAL - THE PERFUMED GARDEN [ELP063] by ECSTATIC published on 2021-08-05T14:57:13Z Taken from 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night' LP/Download [ELP063] Sublime debut of lilting sketches for guitar x synth by manc bosom buds Celestial, quietly resplendent in a classic vein of soft touch Balearic blues and kosmische hues that comes very highly recommended if you’re into anything from The Durutti Column to Vincent Gallo’s classic ‘When’ album or even the instrumental splendour of HTRK at their most diaphanous. Bathed in moonlight, ’I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’ is the gorgeous debut by childhood friends Celestial, arriving in the glistening wake of 2021 gems on the same label by Romance, Not Waving, Spivak, claire rousay & more eaze. Convecting a richly sanguine sound gleaned from a Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synth and Fender guitar with the results mottled to frail AGFA tape, it’s the modest and warm soul on display that speaks to a quieter side of the rainy city psyche, picking up a fine thread of etheric inspiration that leads back to The Durutti Column via Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack and Iasos’ intoxicating new age, with a fragile, gauzy vision of instrumental songcraft ripe for getting lost in dappled fantasy. Practically synaesthetic in their spatial sensitivity and psilocybic tactility, the six songs make a real virtue of reverb, echo and tender hiss that swaddles their lyrical phrasing with a cottony texture. Subtly but crucially favouring analogue enigma over digital clarity, their sound unspools with a kaleidoscopic, nostalgic quality surrendered in shimmering waves of bliss and back-of-the-eyes swirl between the hash haze of ‘Endless’ and northern gothic tone of ‘Lonely Weekend.’ Tape hiss resembles drizzle outside in the lowlit langour of ‘Hat Full of Rain’, and we can practically taste the petrichor in ‘The Perfumed Garden’, leading to ASMR levels of synth tingles with an unmistakeable northern melancholy of ‘At The Rivers Edge’, especially in its gloaming coda. A reel low-key stunner. Mastered by Alessio Natalizia Genre Electronic Comment by colt relax 2022-12-02T10:50:08Z Comment by HendrikHöfgen Then Go On! Peter Green Vibes....:) 2022-06-25T18:46:38Z Comment by Fab~aen 🖤💙🖤pure deep love track🖤💙🖤 2022-01-22T10:13:03Z Comment by The Slow Music Movement If you're about to embark on a lazy, hazy day then tune in to the gently hypnotic guitar strumming, tape hissing & ambient humming of Celestial's new LP for Ecstatic Records. It's a fine Sunday suitable soundtrack. https://celestialecstatic.bandcamp.com/album/i-had-too-much-to-dream-last-night 2021-08-08T07:41:18Z Comment by ASOA XXX2.55555 firrre 2021-08-05T19:22:02Z Comment by Peoples (¦ꃎ[▓▓] 2021-08-05T17:24:34Z