STRFKR - Ambient 1 (Vinyl)
TRFKR’s sound has morphed over the years through variations of hyper catchy, danceable pop, but on Ambient 1 – the band's first fully instrumental album – the band has achieved something very different. For a little shy of an hour, Ambient 1 drifts through softly glowing electronic instrumentals that extract the synth core from the group’s well established synth pop sound. It’s patient, playful, and calming music that travels through passageways of chaos and anxiety on a journey towards healing.
Upon completing work on the lo-fi dreaminess of Future Past Life, STRFKR’s principal songwriter Josh Hodges found himself returning repeatedly to albums by his favorite ambient artists and minimal composers. This growing obsession with synthesis and the culture around it also concurred with the daily darkness of the pandemic and some personal disruptions. Without spending too much time thinking about what it meant, Hodges began recording ambient experiments almost daily as a way of processing these difficult emotions. Echoes of masters like Harold Budd and Brian Eno can be heard in the angelic floating of “Work Smoothly Lifetime Peace” while tracks like “Nexus” are stormy and frenetic.
In some ways, Ambient 1 is unlike anything STRFKR has created before, but when completely absorbed, it makes sense why it’s included under the STRFKR banner. Even at his most experimental, Hodges can’t escape his distinctive melodic approach. Ambient 1 strip away the familiar and the expected, exposing Hodges’ signature sonic personality at a granular level.
Track Listing:
SIDE A:
- Rainzow
- Work Smoothly Lifetime Peace
- Bunji
- Kaleidoscope
- Telescope
- Anxiety
- Zee Majoor
- Concentrate
- Vergeten
- Nexus
- Zij Aan Zij
- Sleep
TRFKR’s sound has morphed over the years through variations of hyper catchy, danceable pop, but on Ambient 1 – the band's first fully instrumental album – the band has achieved something very different. For a little shy of an hour, Ambient 1 drifts through softly glowing electronic instrumentals that extract the synth core from the group’s well established synth pop sound. It’s patient, playful, and calming music that travels through passageways of chaos and anxiety on a journey towards healing.
Upon completing work on the lo-fi dreaminess of Future Past Life, STRFKR’s principal songwriter Josh Hodges found himself returning repeatedly to albums by his favorite ambient artists and minimal composers. This growing obsession with synthesis and the culture around it also concurred with the daily darkness of the pandemic and some personal disruptions. Without spending too much time thinking about what it meant, Hodges began recording ambient experiments almost daily as a way of processing these difficult emotions. Echoes of masters like Harold Budd and Brian Eno can be heard in the angelic floating of “Work Smoothly Lifetime Peace” while tracks like “Nexus” are stormy and frenetic.
In some ways, Ambient 1 is unlike anything STRFKR has created before, but when completely absorbed, it makes sense why it’s included under the STRFKR banner. Even at his most experimental, Hodges can’t escape his distinctive melodic approach. Ambient 1 strip away the familiar and the expected, exposing Hodges’ signature sonic personality at a granular level.
Track Listing:
SIDE A:
- Rainzow
- Work Smoothly Lifetime Peace
- Bunji
- Kaleidoscope
- Telescope
- Anxiety
- Zee Majoor
- Concentrate
- Vergeten
- Nexus
- Zij Aan Zij
- Sleep
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