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Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home

    • Label /
      Melody As Truth
      MAT3
    • Released /
      July 2015
    • Style /
      Ambient, Electronica
    • Comments /
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    • Rating /
      3.7/5
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    Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home
    Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home Diego Herrera's output isn't connected by a genre so much as a mood. Under the name Suzanne Kraft, he's probably best known for slow-mo house productions. But he proved himself equally skilled with ambient music on Missum, a six-tracker of foggy synth meanderings. The drums were gone, but the feeling of blissful repose remained.

    Talk From Home marks Herrera's return to ambient, though he's tweaked the style once again. The dense sprawl of Missum has been cut back for a collection of simple, lilting synth ballads. Appearing on Melody as Truth, the LP's closest relative might be the Balearic-tinged solo work by label owner Jonny Nash, or the gemlike ambient etudes of his Gaussian Curve trio. The title of the opener, "Two Chord Wake," nicely sums up Herrera's particular take on this sound: its innocuous shuffle and chime melodies would serve as the gentlest of wake-up calls.

    Throughout the album, drums provide light embellishment, keeping time beneath artful synth loops and gently wailing guitars. Some tracks, like the wonderful "Talk From Home," closely mirror Gaussian Curve's aqueous sound. Others could be soul slow jams cut loose from their vocals: Herrera's synth caresses are joined by a few breathy moans on "Never Heated" while "Renee Sleeping" entwines slinky guitar licks.

    Talk From Home is simple in construction, but the balance Herrera strikes—between aimlessness and precision—is a delicate one. Occasionally he wobbles, as on "Flatiron," whose guitar noodling is a little too scrappy. But mostly he keeps his poise, and the album's tone darkens as it progresses. "Male Intuition" is a gorgeous guitar solo wandering through a large, gloomy space; "The Result" feels like one of Herrera's chord loops stretched and smeared into an ambrosial cloud. Much of Herrera’s music is defined by its bright, easygoing nature, but these tracks hint at the other strings to his bow.
    • Published /
      Fri / 24 Jul 2015
    • Words /
      Angus Finlayson
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    • Tracklist /
      01. Two Chord Wake
      02. Never Heated
      03. Flatiron
      04. Renee Sleeping
      05. Talk From Home
      06. Male Intuition
      07. The Result
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