Bleep

In listening to Equivalents, the twelfth album by Loscil (Scott Morgan), words like ‘drift’ spring to mind, but its great achievement is the ambiguity it invites. The vastness of its stature seems too monumental to invoke anything other than solid immutability; and yet, the epic open sky captured in these lasting pieces are constantly fluctuating, protean as they subtly envelop audio space. Inspired by the moody skies of Alfred Stieglitz’s early 20th century photography series of the same name, Equivalents recalls the wind-swept pastoralism found in the greatest of ambient works, without recourse to New Age aesthetics or worn tone poetry.