Benjamin Shaw is a musician and artist based in London. He’s just announced that his new album, Guppy, will be released on Tokyo’s Kirigirisu Recordings. So far only one song is available but it serves as the perfect appetite whetter. ‘Pylon Pile-On’ is slice of ambient music which utilises synths and field recordings to create something comfortably sad and vividly alive, like watching rain fall onto a city from the window of a train. The blurb on Bandcamp suggests this is true of the whole album:
“Guppy then eschews the whole singing thing for waves of many-coloured drone, field recorded texture, and sun-struggling-to-break-through-heavy-cloud burnished flakes of melody”
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You can pre-order Guppy now via the Kirigirisu Recordings Bandcamp page. If you liked Ricky Eat Acid or Danielle Fricke’s Burrow (or, probably more likely, you are familiar with Shaw’s other instrumental work) then you’d be wise to do so right away.
