{"title":"Belong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelong is an influential artist in the ambient music genre, known for their unique soundscapes and ethereal compositions. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Windy \u0026amp; Carl, Benoît Pioulard, and Brian McBride, Belong has created a distinct sonic identity that captivates listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir music combines elements of drone, shoegaze, and electronic experimentation to create immersive sonic landscapes. With a discography spanning several critically acclaimed albums, Belong has established themselves as one of the leading figures in the ambient music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListeners can expect to be transported to otherworldly realms through Belong's mesmerizing compositions. Their work evokes a sense of introspection and contemplation, inviting listeners to lose themselves in the layers of sound. Fans of artists like The Dead Texan, Fennesz, and Tim Hecker will find much to appreciate in Belong's atmospheric creations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"common-era","title":"Common Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eRepress of 2011 album. Itʼs been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommon Era \u003c\/i\u003eshows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorless Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new material has such common pop elements as “songs”, vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current “scene”. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426643644747,"sku":"2209590","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Common_Era_8aa0293f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726815288"},{"product_id":"october-language","title":"October Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOctober Language\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut album by New Orleans based duo Belong, comprised of Turk Dietrich and Mike Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince it's release in early 2006, Belongs debut masterpiece has accumulated a dedicated cult following, with comparisons to the work of Tim Hecker and Gas, with some claims that it plays like My Bloody Valentine's \"Loveless\" sans the songs. While these comparisons are useful for filing this album into a particular bin in the record shop, time has proven that \"October Language\" is a unique album which remains unmatched by its contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the warm and welcome accolades of the albums arrival, there was no vinyl pressing until 2009, of which a limited one-time pressing vanished immediately. Spectrum Spools is pleased to present a pristine vinyl cut to go with reimagined album art for the definitive edition of this legendary classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhysical copies include a download card with extra tracks from the impossibly rare Tour EP from the same era. 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Follows up, thirteen years later, from critically acclaimed album \u003ci\u003eCommon Era\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eRealistic IX\u003c\/i\u003e, the third full-length by the duo of Michael Jones \nand Turk Dietrich aka Belong, is both an expansion and excavation of \ntheir signature acid-washed songcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBleached guitars, metronomic drums, and buried voices rev, swirl, and seethe across shifting gradients of haze and hypnosis, alternately driving and diffuse. Melodies surge closer to the surface, flexing their form before resubmerging into quickening currents of feedback. Elsewhere the elements dissipate into a dusk of murk and microtonalities, electricity liberated back into infinite night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough it’s been thirteen years since Belong’s prior Kranky offering, \u003ci\u003eCommon Era\u003c\/i\u003e, none of the duo’s rare synergy has decayed in the interim. 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