First Impressions (AU)

It was only weeks ago that Longform Editions released the precursor to this album, Bundanon, named for the artists’ retreat where it was recorded, along with this album. Bundanon is a nature and wildlife sanctuary on the New South Wales south coast. In Deep Valley, the tenuous air of human presence in such environments is captured in the uncanny fluidity drawn from fragmentary chords of guitar and piano, carefully set into its ambient trace of field recordings. Deep Valley is not an entirely calm space, as through its hypnotic pull is a stream of carefully captured sonic detail from the landscape, pricking at any chance of a lulled consciousness with a bustle in its hedgerow.