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by Kaelan Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s a tricky line to walk when recording an album that flirts with ambience or shapelessness. A rhythm typically needs to establish itself, either through repetition of motifs and sounds or a total and comprehensive understanding of sequencing. There needs to be a thread that can pull the listener through the collection \u2014 a conviction of vision and purpose. <\/span><\/p>\n he-does-not-wake-you <\/span><\/i>seems to understand this idea, at least at first. The album opens with two rolling, sun drenched instrumentals that invoke a sort of directionless nostalgia, reminiscent of a summer you\u2019re not sure you ever actually saw. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201che\u2019s a practical man and he had high expectations\u201d and \u201cmy eyes lit up the other day, in a way, for the first time since I was three\u201d are very much of a piece, and they move as if in conversation. It\u2019s a gently stirring introduction to a record that abandons its initial impression as quickly as it introduces it. <\/span><\/p>\n The tender momentum begins to break up somewhere around the third track, replaced by something a bit more fractured and dirty. Shards of driving garage punk, gentle keyboard pulses, heaving psychedelia and spoken word mantra \u2014 all drenched in fuzz \u2014 interrupt the simple jangle-pop framework. You may experience a bit of whiplash, and the fleeting glimmers of pop song craft can leave one wondering what <\/span>he-does-not-wake-you <\/span><\/i>would sound like had Lino D\u2019Ottavio fully embraced his pop-leaning instincts. However, this lack of sonic clarity makes for an ultimately more intriguing collection, cohesion be damned. <\/span><\/p>\n The album falls in a strange sort of no-mans-land, caught between ambient drift and lo-fi pop record. It\u2019s a space that D\u2019Ottavio seems intent on bridging, and while the combination has yet to be perfected, <\/span>he-does-not-wake-you <\/span><\/i>manages to be surprisingly gripping, even stirring in its glimmering miniatures. It\u2019s a small and insular record, and one that opens a myriad of possibilities. It seems that pisces\/\/ could go anywhere from here. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Kaelan Bell There\u2019s a tricky line to walk when recording an album that flirts with ambience or shapelessness. A rhythm typically needs to establish itself, either through repetition of motifs and sounds or a total and comprehensive understanding of sequencing. There needs to be a thread that can pull the listener through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1182,1278,329,563,1277,796,1159,1104],"class_list":["post-11134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ambient","tag-chillwave","tag-experimental","tag-local","tag-pisces","tag-review","tag-slowcore","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}