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a field with no edges
Electronic · 2023 · 10 tracks · 28m

a field with no edges

orchid mantis

A masterfully blurred collection of tape-saturated ambient pop. These ten tracks feel like looking at old polaroids through a thick layer of autumn fog.

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It's like a memory of a song you heard through a wall twenty years ago.

A gentle, dissociative fog that feels both lonely and deeply comforting.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 28m
01
light will never leave
1:57
02
a distance that can't be measured
2:44
03
waiting at the station
2:40
04
speaking for the first time
4:01
05
something that can't be seen
3:34
06
leaves in dusk
5:24
07
testament
2:28
08
three days in the terminal
2:24
09
the field dreams forever
1:55
10
those endless days
1:43
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the tape hiss swells into a rhythmic pulse on track 3, mimicking the mechanical hum of a distant station.
The sudden clarity of the guitar melody in 'leaves in dusk' before it is slowly swallowed by a five-minute ambient drift.
The fragile, almost-broken vocal delivery on 'speaking for the first time' that feels like a secret whispered in a crowded room.
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