“Silence the phone, draw the blinds and zone out to some experimental rock delights.
It’s a hard task negotiating the tropes of ambient music, trying to avoid the ever present threat of boredom while nurturing those moments of solitary intimacy that exist within the genre’s finest work.
On Slow Dancing Society’s sixth album, sole member Drew Sullivan hits a sweet spot of gently gliding musical fantasia, and with the help of non-ambient instruments, finds a real reason to pay attention to the sounds hovering above.
‘By Morning This Will All Seem Like A Dream’ achieves the unenviable task of marrying cheesy 80’s music touchstones of dance floor synths, big ballad guitar leads and Kenny G sax, repackaged and twisted into something genuinely touching. It’s an impressive feat of futuristic musical reimagining and a common theme that emerges throughout the album.
Other moments follow a different course: ‘A Clearing’ channels tripped out methods of alien sound crafting, complete with X-Files styled laser beam synth and the cavernous background echo of a skeletal beat. The result is otherworldly: like the score to a science fiction movie from another dimension.”