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Geotic 'Abysma' (Ghostly)
Will Wiesenfeld, best known for his multi-layered experimentalism as Baths, changes tack with his Geotic alias to produce an album of sonic simplicity that still reaches impressive depths. The combination of restrained vocals and bleeping pads usher in a sense of warmth on ‘Actually Smiling’ and there are washes of strings and flurries of hi-hats on ‘Sunspell’, as Wiesenfeld creates an LP that’s calming and kaleidoscopic in colour. Keys echo beneath the pulses of ‘Nav’, while his falsetto reaches into your psyche on ‘Laura Corporal’. An album that’s underpinned by atmospherics that flicker between stalling and soaring, ‘Abysma’ is blissfully evocative from start to finish. Leah Connolly
7/10
