Salt Coast by Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley

Originally released on Strategic Tape Reserve, November 2024.

“Fans of early Aphex Twin will find much to love. The duo have crafted a similarly drowsy homage to their childhood nightmares, combining vintage radiophonics with genuinely disturbing soundscapes” Bob Fischer, Electronic Sound

“Both know a thing about how to transform sounds almost to the point of being unrecognisable, but Salt Coast finds the pair creating a sort of impenetrable fogginess around noises, melodies and borrowed segments… what Thompson and Langley do here is smother their inputs, not decay them. It’s both terrifying and beautiful in its own special way” Mat Smith, Further.

"This album is full of spectres and slithery reptiles and took a seemingly long abandoned road to get to us. It’s a truly beautiful thing." Urban Mutant Radio

“On Salt Coast, Dog Versus Shadows and Nicholas Langley team up to deliver 16 sublime dreamstate transmissions united by an eerie Cold War ambiance and a shared fondness for vintage electronics. Oscillating smoothly between sinister drumless acid, creaking industrial drones, hazy early rave recollections and new-dawn pastorals, the tracks, some of which are collaborations and others solo works, are built around childhood memories and lingering vestigial images (the empty buildings on an often-walked street, 1970s appliances). The fuzzy analog serpentine melodies awash in lush, murky effects exude a glowing warmth that balances perfectly against the ghostly unease of the album’s atmosphere." Strategic Tape Reserve.

Dog Versus Shadows has released music on Subexotic Records, Third Kind, Woodford Halse, Anticipating Nowhere, Miracle Pond, Human Geography Recordings and Flaming Pines.

Nicholas Langley has released music on Third Kind, Spun Out Of Control, Strategic Tape Reserve, Cruel Nature, Mortality Tables, Muzan Editions and Falt.

Tracklist

1.	Cat Shadows	3:34

2.	Gunghilda's Submarine	2:23

3.	Feckless Ophelia	2:33

4.	Marching Through The Radiation Zone	1:33

5.	A Hoax Body At The Foot Of A Hoax Cliff	2:06

6.	Sidled Up To The Heathens	2:39

7.	Crabtree	3:51

8.	Kent Coastline	1:35

9.	Pebblemill	3:28

10.	Wooden Television Dial	2:28

11.	Rat Shed	2:11

12.	Nought Wrongs	1:19

13.	Advertisment	0:28

14.	Complications	2:08

15.	Everywhere Budgies	3:24

16.	Stone Path Ascent	1:56

17.	Session Material	22:55

Credits

released November 21, 2024

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