Various Artists - Always + Forever

ALWAYS + FOREVER is the first compilation to be released on Do You Have Peace? collecting unreleased tracks from both new and
existing artists on the label. Featuring Time Cow, YL Hooi, Teresa Winter, Jonnine, Guest, Static Cleaner Lost Reward, Hermeneia,
Zaumne, Birthmark, Silzedrek, Laughter of Saints, Vessel & Rakhi Singh. Originally imagined as a project to link together the dream
pop related leanings of a disparate group of artists, as the project grew it became more amorphous but still kept a strange and half
awake quality throughout. The pop leanings are still there, although often buried under slabs of reverb, but there are also less heavy
lidded bedroom confessionals, as well as DIY chamber pieces and teary eyed instrumental passages. Most of the vocal-led tracks are
in the first half of the album, leaving the second section to drift fully into hypnagogic sedative territory. Where vocals do come in they
are more like half remembered fragments of dream speech than any kind of traditional narrative. The voices eventually leave us
completely, drifting through 3 chamber pieces, reclaiming the classical arrangements of strings / piano / etc from the lofty heights of
concert halls and scores to something more intimate and familiar, a box room in a flat, or a bedroom, a memory of lying awake staring
at the ceiling and trying to go to sleep again. Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Downtempo