Label: Darla Records
Catalog#: DRL 174
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 15 May 2006
Style: Ethereal, Ambient
Audio: APE & CUE / MP3: 320 Kbps ,CBR, Stereo.
Size: 200 Mb / 94 Mb, recovery 5%

 

Robin Guthrie releases his second instrumental album, Continental, on May 15th 2006 on Darla Records. As you'd expect from the former Cocteau Twins guitarist and producer, this is a record of beautiful, hazy, absorbing and provocative music. One of Guthrie's qualities has always been the ability to create or sculpt sound so it connects with something nameless and primal within the listener, resonating with something usually hidden and silent. The title track shimmers the album into existence, promising an intense and moving experience. The ten tracks here are billowing with possibility: there are moments of extreme sadness - 'Crescent' is the plaintive howl of one man reaching for the stars and having his fingers close on empty air, yet the whole record hums with energy, glows with hope. Guitar lines climb and vault over themselves; tentative spiderwebbed passages give way to soaring slabs of pure, plangent sound, whipping the ground from under your feet and the air from your lungs. The textures create a sensuous cocoon of gossamer… truly, this is a record to drown in.

 

TrackListing:

01. Continental - 4:35
02. Conquering The Romantic - 2:50
03. Crescent - 3:37
04. Monument - 3:45
05. Amphora - 2:43
06. The Day Star - 3:37
07. Radiance - 4:44
08. As I Breathe - 4:44
09. Last Exit - 4:20
10. Pale - 6:48