LATE - Far North Eleven (2021)

Emil Mitov, the Sofia-based electronic music artist is better known as LATE and, after two EPs, he showed his experimental and poignant at the same time music on the debut LP called Far North Eleven, courtesy of, as always, Amek Collective.

The audience can find here the "deeper and lengthier descent into thick atmospheres and sparse, contemplative melodies, soaked in despair". This is not a soothing soundscape inspired by the Far North, it's definitely coarser, sharper, uncomfortable in many places just like the rocky side on the cover art is not a white sheet of smooth polar ice. The electronic bits are harsh and unheralded, taking a lot from industrial heaviness and rapidness but also made a bit tender with the ethereal voices appearing from time to time in the backgrounds. Or some neoclassical traces like in my favourite track here: Evocation.

Far North Eleven costs 5 EUR.

Check: Evocation

Country: Bulgaria

Genre: industrial electronica

Label: Amek Collective

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