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Etelin - Patio User Manual (2024)

Etelin - Patio User Manual (2024)

BAND/ARTIST: Etelin

  • Title: Patio User Manual
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Beacon Sound / BNSD086
  • Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Glitch
  • Quality: 16bit-44,1kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 30:42
  • Total Size: 161 mb
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Tracklist
1. All Day Moon (04:47)
2. Brown's Pool Behind the Hammock Tree (03:06)
3. The Chemistry of Cobalt (02:56)
4. Golden Bells Hung from the Plants (03:20)
5. Electrical Sailing (02:21)
6. The Irrational Patio (03:33)
7. The Chemistry of Dirt (06:02)
8. Picnic at Gas Station Park (04:37)


On his third album as Etelin, Alex Cobb explores the intricacies of separation and belonging using field recordings and electronics, reconfiguring the dividing line between what is artificial and natural in the process. Maintaining a sense of playful reverence and lurking melancholy in its glitchy pastoralism, Patio User Manual hums with a meticulous and singular energy. From the loops and static pulses of "The Chemistry of Cobalt" to the tension and release of "Electrical Sailing," the listener is pulled into a sound world at once ambivalent and radiant, reaching its denouement in the lovely melody that closes the final track, "Picnic at Gas Station Park".

Although the album might bring to mind the nuanced and imaginative ambient music published by labels such as Mille Plateaux, Sonig, and Silent Records in the 1990s, it is, in the end, a world of its own and very much of today. The patio as a stage for alienated life, pyrrhic in its isolation, deceptive in its promise of distinction. Orientation as disorientation, often unseen inside the frame but felt in the bones. What is out there, anyway, other than the thing we fear the most?


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