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ReleaseProduct
Ambulance
Artist
The Amazing
Label
Partisan Records
Catalogue Number
PTKF2139-0
Release Date
July 22, 2016

Ambulance sees The Amazing continue their journey to a place where music is free of restrictions. Despite reflecting Chris Gunrup's often bleak worldview, the music is expansive and beautiful, marked by playing that’s as much free jazz as rock - pure music without any showiness. The songs unfold slowly, without a traditional verse/chorus structure, spinning gauzy webs of shimmering mystery with their own inimitable dynamic of sinuous, swirling guitars; rich, ambient bass lines; crisp percussion and restrained, church-like, keyboard textures. The stately tempos suggest a room full of shadows desperately reaching out for intimacy, but never quite making the connection. The songs brim over with tension and more implied release than actual relief.

Gunrup is known for his reluctance to talk about his process and prefers to let the music speak for itself and if 2015’s Picture You was brighter, exploding outward to explore the limits of experience, Ambulance is much more intimate. The mix denser and darker, the instruments pressing closer, crowding each other, imploding inward to reconnoiter the uncharted distances that exist between us, even in life’s most intimate moments.

Sharing members with Sweden's psych forefathers Dungen, the album was recorded in just a few days in one tiny room at Stockhom's Buller & Bäng studio and delves into the hidden recesses of the heart, finding inner space to be just as expansive as the midnight sky.

Standard Black Vinyl LP includes Digital Download Card.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Ambulance 4:24 Buy

    Ambulance

  2. 2 Divide 5:24 Buy

    Divide

  3. 3 Blair Drager 5:33 Buy

    Blair Drager

  4. 4 Tracks 6:40 Buy

    Tracks

  5. 5 Floating 4:37 Buy

    Floating

  6. 6 Through City Lights 7:43 Buy

    Through City Lights

  7. 7 Moments Like These 4:21 Buy

    Moments Like These

  8. 8 Perfect Day For Shrimp 6:24 Buy

    Perfect Day For Shrimp

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