KILN: From Dawn to Dusker
After a delay of almost half a year, Michigan-based trio KILN have finally set their new full-length album free for the world to hear. “Dusker” is released on Ghostly International and features eleven electronic fairy tales of lustrous, glinting and glistening timbres. Described by Ghostly “as an aural feast on headphones, and a perfect companion for a stroll through auburn fields.”, “Dusker” is a sweet and soft infusion of pure harmony , penetrating the mind like a crystalised sugar syringe. Originally slated for a release in April of this year, the record was then set back to the wintertime due to what KILN referred to as “distribution snafu and other chaos”. In the end, though, all issues have been resolved and first reactions, as KILN were eager to point out, were more than just encouraging. In a recent statement, the band summed up the first month of Dusker thus: “Dusker is still soaring—ranking as high as no.8 on iTunes Top Ten 'electronic albums' sales, reaching no. 15 (overall) in Emusic downloads, and getting chosen as an Entertainment Weekly "Pick of the Week." After ten years of refining their sound from tape experiments to a band-concept and to a style which they call “texture-groove-mosaics”, “Dusker” now looks like it will bring KILN the breakthrough they have been working towards for a long time.
While KILN could be compared to various other bands on “Dusker” – from a spaced-out version of Trans Am to a folkdream of Boards of Canada – they have managed to secure a definite and remarkable space of their own thanks to a composing style which combines techniques from the world of electronic and progressive rock music: Sending documents from one PC to the other and continually reworking their pieces until all structures have smoothened out into a radiating and deep texture of high inner complexity.
Subsequently, each track on “Dusker” is now both refined and mysterious. From the subliminal dub messages of “Rustdusk” to the melodic quirkiness of “Templefrog”, the pieceful meditation “Arq” and the dark, filigree funkiness of closing opus “Tigertail”, KILN have truly turned “Dusk” into the audio gallery they promised.
A special focus for KILN on “Dusker” was the integration of acoustic instruments into futuristic electronic soundscapes: “While guitars, drum kits and live percussion appear on many tracks, the ear will struggle to pinpoint the possible sources of the unique sounds comprising Dusker.”
“Dusker” is available as a special Digipack edition or as a high-quality digital download directly from Ghostly International.
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