Ian Nyquist - Endless, Shapeless (2021)

The Irish artist Ian Nyquist released his second (it seems) album under the experimental umbrella of LAAPS records. This is some music for the people who seek something that can be described and want to truly feel it. Perhaps they should reach for Endless, Shapeless.

This is a disturbingly chaotic music in a sense that it doesn't go in one direction for a longer time.  That's probably the reason for the "shapeless" in the title. There's a lot from ambient and electronic music as well as neoclassical bits (violins provided by Cornelis Jordaan and cello by Kristin Nyquist). Especially the electronics sound very tasteful and impactful in a non-invasive way (if it's not an oxymoron) - but this is what I take from songs like Plateau.  And of course the whole experimental stuff that includes unnerving and uncomfortable sounds like it is in Field & Cliff in which they are not soothed even by the ethereal backing vocals that support the composition.

The album comes to an end finally so the title's first part is an exaggeration but there are moments in life in which this album could play on endlessly providing the perfect soundtrack slowly dissolving into neoclassical soundscape.

Endless, Shapeless costs 6 EUR.

Check: Plateau 

Country: Ireland

Genre: experimental ambient

Label: LAAPS

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