Ben Bondy
Sibling
3XL / Experiences Ltd
/
2022
Includes Instant Download
2LP
30.99
BONDY01
2022 repress, edition of 300 copies
Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Home 4:39
2Proraso 2:54
3Eeon 2:00
4Saline Drip 2:45
5Wourld 4:36
6Flejlern 4:40
7Plun 3:37
8Cel Regen 4:35
9Limp 4:14
10A Certain Breeze 4:44
11Crate 5:54
12Echinacea 2:57
13Bodi 4:53
14Jeeem Etanzel 1:56
15Lith 5:44

Ben Bondy blesses Special Guest DJ’s Experiences Ltd with a near-fathomless solo debut of sensual, low key electronics and intimate nocturnes following a pair of peaches from from Ulla and Folder. This one’s all fizzing warm and loved up, highly recommended listening if you're into anything from Newworldaquarium/154 to Harold Budd.

Like his split with Exael for Huerco S.’ West Mineral, ’Sibling’ sees Bondy return to a seductively gauzy mid- ground sound that over the course of 15 tracks lulls and lists with a minimalist patience, allowing forms to emerge and evaporate in constantly shifty transitions and weathered plays of light according to an immersive eco-logic. Those liminal traces of sound and influence are almost imperceptible, pulling you into a protective amniotic sound-world thats evocative and comforting.

The album actually started out as a single LP but the mood spilled over into something twice as long and deep with it, creating what he describes as “kinda two parts to one being. kinda like the way the bonds of friendship/siblinghood work”. This fraternal pathos percolates throughout the album, knitting together gently windswept permutations of thizzing pads and frayed rhythms under a smudged and slowly turning kaleidoscopic lens. It’s pretty much the definition of hypnagogic, likely to draw your eyelids to half-mast and your mind to blissed-out dream states.