Hopeless Variations, by April Larson

Hopeless Variations

by April Larson

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Ews Nsj kept my eyesight in the far background through the duration of this extremely meditative collection of tracks. one might be forgiven,... if they had not listened intensely and with focus,.. for assuming that these could be remixes of the same piece. yet that, to me, seems lightyears from the actuality of HV after having listened intently through each chapter. indeed around the point of the two wonderful pieces, “pictures of tomorrow” and “end of the sky”, i began to visualise a beautiful blue being laying in burnt red sands on some unknown heavenly body, that must have been earth-like (but definitely not...Earth)... in the vision i was suddenly inside the blue figure i saw,..laying flat and staring up to the depths above. i then witnessed a wonderful display where the sky featured enormous thin shifting sheets of floating dust and vapor (imagine if Earth’s clouds were pressed flat). in many places there where giant round holes in these sky layers and i could see beams of light flooding down onto the sands, not too distant from where i lay,..emanating from two ‘Sun’-like stars. and where the light struck the sand there was a bluish fog that seemed to glow with a pulsing intensity, as if the light caused some strange reaction with the surface of this planet. as the holes in these strange clouds would shift and move so would the beams and glowing mists... — i find it difficult to choose a fav on this album due to the fact that each track seems to contain some extra little part that caught my ear,... whether it be in the way the elements are manipulated in the stereo field or the psychoacoustic moments of me imagining distant buried voices, chant and/or imagined melody caused by the various overlapping timbres within each piece,.. there is something in each ‘chapter’ to make it unique. definitely recommend to take this journey in good headphones with eyes closed (or while peering into nature or flowing visuals)

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	1.	Binary Star 03:29
	2.	Spira Spera 04:42
	3.	After the Void 04:01
	4.	Pictures of Tomorrow 06:01
	5.	The End of the Sky 05:39
	6.	What Wouldn't You Do 02:49
	7.	An Isolated Incident 05:02
	8.	You Were A Promise 04:26
	9.	The Absent Stars 03:55
	10.	Earthbound 04:20
	11.	Home Tonight 04:24
	12.	Sleep Machine 04:24

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"Jung reflected that life is a story with no beginning and no end..."

Breathtaking drone monoliths dreamed into existence. Ward off the coming cold with this lush and gleaming collection of celestial tectonics, forever echoing into the endless void.

Limited edition, professionally duplicated and printed CDR in a full-colour four-panel digipak case and 3" x 3" iron-on patch available here: pyramidblood.bandcamp.com/album/hopeless-variations

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released December 23, 2017

Originally released December 1, 2017 on Pyramid Blood Recordings

PYR-005

www.pyramidblood.com

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April Larson

April Larson is the representative of snakes and ghosts located along the coast of Louisiana.

discography

Singles 2011-2016

Mar 2020
Virtual Stardust

Sep 2019
Recollection of Nat King Cole's Smile

Apr 2019
Hopeless Variations

Dec 2017
The Human Heart

Dec 2017
Louisiana Gothic

Sep 2017
You Stand in a Valley Between Dunes

Jul 2017
⁂ Asterism

Jun 2017
The Second Throne

Jun 2017
Lullaby of the Drowned

Apr 2016
The House in Harbour Park

Jan 2016
Arda Marred (From High and Beautiful to Darkness and Ruin)

Oct 2015
Only Phantoms and Delusions

Aug 2015
Dark Oasis EP

Feb 2015
Rotwood

Feb 2015
Fluttercage

Dec 2014
Bear Thee Away To The Houses Of Lamentation

Jul 2014
A Light That Illuminates Nothing

May 2014
Something Terrible Has Happened: The Clocksucker Mixes

Aug 2013
Tempête

May 2013
When You Fall Asleep

Feb 2013
Entressis

Feb 2013
Small Pieces of Sky

Feb 2013
A History That Never Occurred

Feb 2013
It Was Misplaced

Feb 2013
How Do You Know My Name?

Feb 2013

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