Sebby Kowal - Details
Released: April 24 In their follow up to last year’s Large Air , Sebby Kowal takes us on a trip through small and sometimes interconnected sounds of the normal experience of life. Details is technically an ambient album, but it quite often veers into a dynamic form of lowercase music with its amplified and processed treatments of everyday sonic textures. A gentle breeze becomes a whooshing drone and warm vinyl crackle becomes a bed of soft static. What particularly stands out is the treatment of rain throughout the album. Each treatment is different on each track and ranges from gentle patters to a more upfront sound. “Surface” feature one of my favorites in which the sound is ever so slightly dampened and muffled, creating a tepid texture that feels mild and warm. The distant pulsing of bass tones in the background adds to this warmth as a further menagerie of small sounds coalesce around it. “High Rise” takes a similar treatment of rain but brings it closer to the li...
