The Soundcarriers - Celeste (2023 Reissue)

Expected Release 5th May 2023.Dinked Edition delayed, expected 30th June.

There's something intangible about Celeste, The Soundcarriers second album, originally released in 2010. It has a light, lucid quality, almostlike driving exhausted through a strange city at night. Freeflowing yet tethered, dreamy yet attacking, the band continue the fight to reconcilecompeting impulses. Various threads just about keep the shimmering tapestry from tearing. Haunting folk melodies underpinned by rhythmic static and the physicality of the totally analogue recording and mixing, baroque keyboard counterpoints and sweeping arrangements. Theopener Last Broadcast seems to encapsulate this but it's almost as if the album gets the angst out of its system with this track and is free toexplore the quieter, less crowded back streets. After the smoke of Last Broadcast has cleared, the twisting road takes in the softintrospection of Hideaway and Morning