KEEP LOOKING WHERE THE LIGHT COMES FROM

(LP)
Following up last yearÉs Acrobatic Thoughts album, Panoram delves even deeper into his own musical universe with Keep Looking Where The Light Comes From.
Genre Ambient
FormatVINYL
Cat. noRBINC010LP
Label RUNNING BACK INCANTATIONS
Artist PANORAM
Release Date17/11/2023
CarrierLP
Barcode4251804142854
TRACKLIST Feathers I Can Only Repeat Your Love Flat Stones Valovola Ages The Wide House Dove Done Come Blank Sheep There Is A Hole Here Squid For A Day Bucolica Izzy Rob INFO Following up last yearâ„¢s Acrobatic Thoughts album, Panoram delves even deeper into his own musical universe with Keep Looking Where The Light Comes From. We find the producer in confident form, exploring the fuzzy fringes of beauty and chaos. The result is an album that sounds even more like himself and yet surprising at each turn. Opening track Feathers sounds like only Panoram can, buzzy arpeggiated distortion takes flight somewhere in the direction of a distant multiverse where Animal Collective and Boards of Canada soundtracked Koyaanisqatsi. But the psychedelic drift is all Panoramâ„¢s own, conjuring a stark sense of the uncanny with the repeated phrases. The digital guitar and vocal loops of I Can Only Repeat Your Love are practically on the brink of collapsing in on themselves, to the point where the structure begins to shift like a collapsing monument. Flat Stones nods towards ASMR, as flute and woodwind tones caress the ears and a whispered voice teases out an altered state. Itâ„¢s this dreamlike mood that pervades the whole album, a maximal effect thatâ„¢s wrung from minimalist compositions. The Wide House picks up the baton from Laurie Anderson to trip gently through different states of awareness, while the piano patterns of Blank Sheep float through the synth ambience like ideas entering an empty dream. There Is A Hole Here is another mutant loop that unravels as it proceeds - the rhythms turn into a pulse, and despite what the lyrics say, it does indeed mess around with your brain. Panoram balances dance tropes, classical composition, ambient drones and a washed out, fuzzy twist on avant garde pop, and manages to transform it all into a uniform whole that fits all those puzzle pieces together. Yet such is the assuredness of Panoramâ„¢s production that it sounds effortless. At this point, the music is more like a midwife, manifesting your future selfËœs enlightened consciousness with surreal effect.