On my
fourth installment of music by Clearing, I am entirely too affected by the
title to come up with any ideas of how to compare this with any other type of
sound. But really, considering how many
Clearing cassettes I have reviewed now it should be acceptable to say that this
sounds like Clearing rather than having to draw out other tired comparisons.
The
first half of this cassette reminds me of distance in the sense of the long
distance runner. I imagine someone
running a marathon of sorts, and anyone who knows even the slightest about that
knows that it is all about the pacing.
It’s not so much a gradual build, as if going up a hill, but rather it’s
slight ups and downs, speeding up slightly then pulling back, then finishing
big. Again, we’re running a long
distance not sprinting.
Side B
brings to mind a different type of distance, and that is in the sense of the
space between two objects. It’s kind of
funny when you think about it (and listening to this side really brings out
thoughts of it) but distance isn’t really anything but a number. You could be five inches from something or
five miles from something, but there still is something there, in between
you.
Your friend could live in the same
town as you or halfway around the world from you, but that doesn’t make them
any less of a friend. Some scientist
somewhere probably said something about distance being relative, but if no one
did then someone in the scientific community should give proper credit to
Clearing.
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