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About Things That Never Were
Electronic · 2004 · 21 tracks

About Things That Never Were

Wisp

Crystalline IDM that pairs hyper-detailed, skittering percussion with lush, wintery synth pads. A frozen, beautiful world of digital melancholia.

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It’s like Boards of Canada but with much faster drums and a layer of fresh frost over everything.

A fragile, frozen digital landscape that feels both technically complex and deeply lonely.

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Dreamy saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 21 Tracks
01
Slopes
5:40
02
To Fiddler’s Green
4:45
03
We Pretend
2:17
04
Traveller’s Friend
3:19
05
He Was a Happy Man
2:15
06
The Sincere
5:12
07
Rolling Into the Station
2:07
08
Yggdrasil
5:19
09
Around Corners
1:33
10
My Regards, Dear Jonah
3:24
11
Ywasafet
2:08
12
Brown Books
6:19
13
Sad Story
5:16
14
Arc of Lens
6:26
15
Bon P’ont v.2 (d.diGIT mix)
4:53
16
Aboard My Submarine
2:37
17
Chasing Ghosts
4:39
18
This Will End in Tears
4:34
19
Tundra Screams
5:45
20
Zoe
3:30
21
Gentle Slopes
4:05
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the frantic, skittering percussion of Slopes into the wide-open melodic expanse of To Fiddler’s Green.
The way the rhythmic complexity of Tundra Screams suddenly dissolves into a haunting, frozen synth pad.
The delicate, bell-like melodies in Yggdrasil that feel like they are being played on glass.
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