Groovy, organic beats only begin to describe the ethereal sounds that Emancipator (Doug Appling) can compose. The feel of his album Soon It Will Be Cold Enough can be described well enough in that very sentence, though the album will, no doubt, warm your bones.
The album hypnotizes without losing appeal. It barrages you with swirling piano and guitar melodies. Backed by what sounds like a hundred different instruments, the beats push forward, never sounding cluttered. Everything has its place along this cinematic journey, even the subtle sampled bird calls of “Smoke Signals“.
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4 comments
Kinack – Ondas | Bandcamp's Best says:
Mar 12, 2012
[...] is an organically driven project, drawing inspiration from established downtempo/trip-hop acts Emancipator and Bonobo. The similarities to Emancipator are what attracted me to the album on first listen, [...]
Cult Classic Records – Friends and Family | Bandcamp's Best says:
Mar 30, 2012
[...] reviewed a few downtempo, trip-hop influenced musicians in the past. While I’d love to tell you that they’re all starting to sound the same, [...]
Emancipator – Remixes | Bandcamp's Best says:
Aug 2, 2012
[...] able to enter the fray and ever become a contender for our ears. One such inspiration, as well as the first musician reviewed on Bandcamp’s Best, is [...]
Ten Million Sounds – Finding Time | Bandcamp's Best says:
Feb 14, 2013
[...] new effort, an artist that I revered so much that his music served as the first fodder for a (brief, and mostly terrible) feature. With that depressing notion out in the open, one record [...]