ANDREW PEKLER - Sounds From Phantom Islands LP diy venturing outside mostly to work

venturing outside mostly to work in the basement of a frame-shop or observe students on the nearby UC Berkeley campus

but The Bends is almost as great

with dramatic vocals and strings

and "When It Began"

's formula still works like a charm after all these years

ANDREW PEKLER - Sounds From Phantom Islands LP diy venturing outside mostly to workLimited edition of 300 copies. Gently atmospheric Fourth World trips enhanced by an imaginative concept. As a regular collaborator with Jan Jelinek, Pekler has also shared the German producer's interest in exotica music. One line of enquiry was 2016's Tristes Tropiques on Faitiche, an album of vivid biomes teeming with life and coloured with alien yet soothing synth wriggles, not unlike the original exotica of the '50s. Inspired by the anthropologist