why we love this

Vocals are grated and layered over broken beats into a sound that feels both serene and solid, far-reaching and closely held.

about the record

‘Clear’ is a follow up to LXV’s solo effort, ‘Asylum/Theophany’, which was an examination and representation of experiencing the realm of phenomena associated with spectral consciousness. Where ‘A/T’ was a collection of music about amazement, confrontation, and fear of a new reality, ‘Clear’ is a representation of the material world and the new, artificial voices that emerge out of it to recreate this experience of spectral communication. Distant whispers and chants spin into processed virtual light refracting off spatially arranged hypermedia superimposed over the decaying row-homes and warehouses.

The album is also very much about the more desolate aspects of urban life: modern ruins, wide, empty streets in industrial neighborhoods. These muses instill in ‘Clear’ a mournful quality and, at times, a redemptive one.