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Seaworthy - Map In Hand

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""Map In Hand" must be the least overtly electronic release in the 12k catalogue. Australian three-piece Seaworthy conjure their languorous post-rock from a combination of guitar drone, field recordings and the slightest of electronic treatments. The resultant album is an impressive departure for 12k: ordinarily if a guitar shows up on one of the label's releases it either gets mangled beyond all recognition by Christopher Willits' jittery Oval-isms or appears as a component of a Minimo or Fourcolor austere, heavily processed soundworlds. On "Map in hand" you get a sense of the analogue dirt that comes with electric guitar sounds in the real world. You can hear the speckling of amp hiss and the interruption of jacks being plugged and unplugged on this record, and it's all the better for it. 'Map In Hand pt. 7' even comes close to the ghostly reverberations you'd find on a Loren Connors album, with its untreated, unbroken minor key soloing. Excellent."

sounds like: long walks, ponds, algae