{"product_id":"804297840833","title":"Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Ectoplasm)(Expanded Remaster) - Import 2 Vinyl LP Record","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmeralds\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile many of the songs on their previous albums were over ten minutes long, the tracks on this album are short and powerful. Candy Shoppe\" opens the album with refined elegance, the Emeralds' sludgy synth sounds reduced to bite-size pieces, reminiscent of incandescent molasses wrapped in waxed paper. On \"Goes By,\" languid electric guitar strums and entrancing synth pads give way to enveloping sheets of synth growls and soaring leads. These two songs capture that worldview in exactly five minutes or less. If previous albums \"Solar Bridge\" and \"What Happened\" were lysergic expansions, \"Does It Look Like I'm Here?\" exists as a can holding a series of psychotic explosions; in other words, the album lived up to the hype.A 12-song exploration of a dusty, shimmering dreamscape, \"Does It Look Like I'm Here?\" was an aesthetics statement with its iconic cover, a CRT TV left humming in a dark room collecting cosmic dust, a grease-stained polypropylene vase full of flowers It was like grandma's vase full of greasy polypropylene flowers. The album seems to be aware that the Internet created a cultural flood\/void at the time, and only created more of it. But there is beauty in it, embracing the past authentically and through a kind of tripped-out kitsch as a way of finding a new ecstatic present... the hallowed pioneers like Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Temple, Kraftwerk, Can, felt legendarily untouchable across eras and cultures; Emeralds modernized their sound, made it punk, and made it American outsider. Thus, an entire wave of American DIY ambient music, if not mainstream, came to half-attention.Emeralds and the artists who followed them allowed the noise community to embrace melody and structure, inviting the quasi-academic world of deep ambient to become crusty and homespun. Listening to the album now, 13 years after its original release, it still sounds timeless and fresh. Sewn into these glorious folds of sound is a wide-eyed, cotton-mouth awe. Those with a new interest in this kind of thing should use this reissue as an initiation, a history lesson, and a dose of heroism. For this reissue, the album has been remastered by engineer Heba Kadry, who has also worked with Bjork and Big Thief. (2\/2)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46681190859041,"sku":"804297840833","price":69.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/804297840833.jpg?v=1693418512","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/en-nz\/products\/804297840833","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}