Carrboro, NC’s inimitable synthesizer duo MARV follow up their well-received 2021 opus »Keyboard Suite I« with a second volume co-released by enmossed and Softer Recordings. As a (regrettably) posthumous release, »Keyboard Suite II« documents MARV in their fully matured state with melodies that eschew easy categorization and a much-expanded studio effects and processing palette. But the same dreamy languidity marking their previous releases remains, drawing us into their visions of a summer day spent in the shade, by a babbling creek. As a storm approaches from the distance – keyboards saturated by tape into distortion, bursts of noise from idiosyncratic electronics, aleatoric stuttering – MARV grants us an album’s worth of sonic sublimation.

»Keyboard Suite II« in the series expands upon their established pallet, integrating more field recordings and studio processing to their dulcet keyboard melodies. As a storm approaches from the distance – keyboards saturated by tape into distortion, bursts of noise from idiosyncratic electronics, aleatoric stuttering – MARV grants us an album’s worth of sonic sublimation.