Tape alchemist and electronic sorcerer Amulets — aka musician Randall Taylor — will release his latest album, Not Around But Through, on Beacon Sound. Known for his ability to melt genres together in a molten slag of blurred aesthetics, Taylor has a keen ear for how various sounds interact and play off one another. Mixing ambient structures with emo, metal, and post-punk serrations, he imagines a sonic landscape where there are no limits to the possibilities of musical adaptation.
On recent single, “Lifelike”, the analog looper invites Madeline Johnston of Midwife to get lost in a haze of post-shoegaze density, layered with acres of hissing static and droning gravitational fields. Elements of electronic ambience are atomized and disbursed into the atmosphere while an ocean of distortion roars and stomps like a caged animal. Johnston’s voice wanders through this heavy mist, another instrument in service to Taylor’s grand design. But her presence isn’t drained of animation — she counters his musical synthesis with her own inimitable creativity, a spark that runs parallel to his own warped illumination.
Listen below.
Not Around But Through is due out Feb 21 via Beacon Sound. You can pre-order the album here. Follow Amulets on Facebook and Instagram.
