Before New Angels, by swills & phil//mills

Before New Angels

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artwork by Jorgen Koolwijk

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2.	Angel's Design on Massive Central 02:42	buy track
3.	Since the Last Time 03:37	buy track
4.	Prequel 03:13	buy track
5.	Ephemera 02:08	buy track
6.	Common Parlance 04:16	buy track
7.	Etude II 03:24	buy track
8.	The Tiled Men 01:40	buy track
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10.	Will I Be The Cords of Light 06:41	buy track

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Before New Angels is the debut album by Swills & Phil Mills, a Dutch mixed electronic duo in which vibrant talent and solid experience swirl together in a hazy cloud. Ten cinematic ambient tracks that combine the imaginative power of Biosphere and the hallucinatory club DNA of Huerco S and GAS.

Take for instance a track like Common Parlance. It’s a centerpiece and forms the beating heart of Before New Angels. With its elongated, shuffling chords and deadpan kicks it seems to come from an early Wolfgang Voigt recording.

Utrecht-based Sabine Willems is the newcomer of the two. Her work is experimental and does not conform to any genre. She likes to challenge herself by keeping her instrumentation to a bare minimum. Phone recorded samples of the world around her sometimes serve as a building block. But where her earlier tracks still contain rhythm, Before New Angels is virtually beatless.

Phil Mills is the experienced side of the duo. He’s from the North of The Netherlands. Anyone who dives into his musical past will come across dance productions that date as far back as the early nineties. Mills’ experience pays out on Before New Angels, where its layered melodies and slow evolving arrangements never smother the minimalist compositions. Is this one of the better ambient albums of 2023? We tend to think so. You better lie down and feel for yourself.

Artwork by Jorgen Koolwijk 

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released November 20, 2023

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