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recondite - hinterland - ghostly international - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro

1. Rise
2. Leafs
3. Still
4. Riant
5. Stems
6. Floe
7. Abscondence
8. Clouded
9. Fey
10. The Fade

It's been a swift ascent for Lorenz Brunner as his Recondite alias has sprung from relative obscurity in 2011 to releases for Hotflush, Acid Test and now Ghostly International, who release his second album.

It's a dizzying trajectory for an artist but his maturity in the melancholic electronica he weaves allays all doubts. Indeed Ghostly makes for a logical home for the delicate rhythms and gossamer synth work that Brunner has delivered here, and there are plenty of different shades of downbeat musing to keep the mind locked in as one plaintive ballad drifts into the next. There is still room for some of the more techno-minded material that the artist can turn his hand to, but by and large this is an album for private reflection.