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Western Romance Novels

by Neglect

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Nic Brown
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Nic Brown Evocative, spectral ambience that shimmers like a mirage above a desolate, sun-blanched prairie. I’m tangentially reminded of The Volume Settings Folder, Hammock circa “Longest Year” and even “Playing With Fire” era Spacemen 3 but “Western Romance Novels” (WHAT a title!) inhabits a blissed out soundworld all its own. Stunning. Favorite track: Western Romance Novels.
A Strangely Isolated Place
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A Strangely Isolated Place Still a powerful and majestic album. Timeless. Favorite track: Kayenta.
lassessal
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lassessal Western Romance Novels is a great collection of emotive ambient and drone material. This has a wonderful mixture of guitar and synth sounds and textures and showcases an introspective and at times sullen atmosphere. I've been a fan of Neglect for some time and this may be my favorite material to date. Favorite track: Western Romance Novels.
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I had been thinking for a long time about the expansiveness of the desert, parts of Nevada, Utah, northern New Mexico and Arizona, where the valleys stretch out for what seems like a hundred miles in every direction. The light of the sun carves deep shadows and makes colors sharply saturated and vibrant. Storm clouds billow thousands of feet up into the sky over mesas and mountain crags, smeared with brush strokes by the black wings of crows and vultures. I thought of all the places i had been in the desert and tried to arrange the perceptions of the colors, the air temperatures, the scent of native plants, the grand stillness of unpopulated lands into a tonal framework. I often think of the desert as a place where civilization can't stick, cannot convert it to the mechanized dream. The desert is too wild and unforgiving. It has always swallowed up the attempts to conquer it with transient modern luxuries. It is the place where an ancient way of life refuses to surrender.

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released October 30, 2020

Written and produced by Joseph Valentino
Recorded in Portland, Oregon (2013 - 2015)

Remastered in the analog domain by Timothy Stollenwerk
at Stereophonic Mastering
www.stereopho.com

Thanks to everyone who has supported my work over the years and to Timothy @ Stereophonic for revitalizing these songs.

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