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"Before you get too excited, Birchville Cat Motel, the long running project of Mr. Campbell Kneale, is still defunct, this is not in fact a new record, but instead, an album that was originally intended to come out as an lp, but for whatever reason was shelved, until now! So yeah, THAT you can be excited about, and should be, cuz this long lost sonic missive from BCM is one of the prettiest we've heard.
This, what could be the last we hear from the late great Birchville Cat Motel, Came A Great Stallion Whose First Leap Sparked The Celestial Star, is dreamy and pretty and melodic, even by BCM standards, a slow, smoldering shimmerscape, all warm whirring thrum, swirling muted melodies, lush layered textures, it's like a Campbell Kneale Pop Ambient record, a glorious washed out landscape of blurred loops, of abstract ambience, plenty of buzz and rumble, but smeared into hazy streaks, all building to a gorgeously gauzy soft cacophony, before, wait for itÉ the drums come in. Yup, a buried rhythm, motorik and krautrocky, a simple skeletal framework, chugging away beneath a sky full of sonic solar flares, and fiery sheets of super nova sound, which seem to slowly coalesce into slow motion melodies, wound up in a darkly dreamy bit of krautnoise bliss. The drums do eventually fade out, leaving a soft focus squall of intertwined electronic tones, looped effects, and warbly alien melodies, a shimmery hazy dreamdrift outro.
Wow! So good. How this remained unreleased is definitely a mystery, and as much as we hate to proclaim a record so limited as such, this just might be one of our favorite Birchville recordings EVER."
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