Time Rival - Sky Blue, Pale Rose
Released: October 28 On his latest album, Time Rival (Michael Southard) gives us a collection of musical pieces that he describes as a wordless musical poem with nine stanzas. This description lives up to the music contained here as each track drifts us in new yet slightly familiar territory that bounces around in the middle space between ambient and downtempo. “Culvert” opens the album up with a hazy and fuzzy tone that sounds like the percussion peeking its head out into a rainy city street. The atmosphere on this track is something to marvel at honestly. It maintains this sense that the music is simply poking out from the ambient sounds of an overcast and rainy cityscape while also incorporating other field recording atmospherics into its arrangement. While a lot of the other pieces here utilize bits of field recordings, none do so extensively and to such poignancy. Time Rival’s music haas always had his penchant for discrete and slightly dusty drum sounds and Sky Blue, P...
