STARS OF THE LID - AVEC LAUDENUM (1999)

MY FAVOURITE ALBUM BY THIS LEGENDARY DRONE MINIMALIST DUO.
ARTIST`````````````STARS OF THE LID
ALBUM`````````````AVEC LAUDENUM
GENRE`````````````SPACE/INDIE ROCK/AMBIENT
YEAR```````````````1999

















MY VIEW:
This is definetly my favourite Stars of the Lid album. Soft, minimalist pullsating waves of pure emotional energy. Sound that just puts a beautiful vibration into your living space. If you could live on a cloud above the city, this would be your album of choice.

ALBUM REVIEW:
Avec Laudenum moves at a glacier's pace and, slowly yet surely, calls to mind the glazed eye, vacant trance, and pure (temporary) euphoria of the heavy laudanum user. "The Atomium," a three-part work, takes all of 16 minutes to gradually build from a series of softened drones into the exquisite ambience of an orchestra lulling heaven itself to sleep, only to halt the reverie by (just as gradually) introducing ominous backmasked guitars. Of the other two pieces, "Dust Breeding" has much the same effect and feeling of transcendence, while "I Will Surround You" has slightly more of a Technicolor feel. Reportedly recorded by mail between SotL members Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride, Avec Laudenum is a magnificent piece of minimalist ambience.

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