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Playground in a Lake
Electronic · 2021 · 16 tracks · 1h 2m

Playground in a Lake

A dark, aquatic fusion of modern classical and electronics. Heavy cello, haunting choral fragments, and a sense of beautiful, inevitable environmental decay.

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It sounds like a string quartet playing while the ice caps melt around them.

A profound, aquatic sense of mourning for a changing planet, rendered in beautiful but decaying orchestral tones.

Playground in a Lake · vs · Clark
Underwater+4.0σ

Underwater saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks · 1h 2m
01
Lovelock
1:41
02
Lambent Rag
3:24
03
Citrus
2:35
04
Forever Chemicals
3:43
05
More Islands
4:33
06
Small
2:25
07
Disguised Foundation
3:23
08
Suspension Reservoir
2:07
09
Entropy Polychord
4:21
10
Aura Nera
3:54
11
Already Ghosts
2:29
12
Earth Systems
4:42
13
Emissary
3:47
14
Comfort and Fear
2:50
15
Shut You Down
5:50
16
Life Outro
10:56
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the cello on Lambent Rag feels like it is physically struggling to stay in tune against the piano
The sudden appearance of the boy soprano in Small, sounding like a ghost from a pre-industrial past
The ten-minute dissolution of Life Outro where the melody slowly drowns in a sea of ambient texture
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