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Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds Image
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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Australian composer Lawrence English was originally commissioned for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2022 and features contributions by Chris Abrahams, Madeleine Cocolas, Amby Downs, Chuck Johnson, Dean Hurley, Jim O’Rourke, JW Paton, Claire Rousay,The latest full-length release from Australian composer Lawrence English was originally commissioned for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2022 and features contributions by Chris Abrahams, Madeleine Cocolas, Amby Downs, Chuck Johnson, Dean Hurley, Jim O’Rourke, JW Paton, Claire Rousay, Vanessa Tomlinson, Stephen Vitiello, and Norman Westberg. Expand
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  1. Feb 4, 2025
    80
    The record activates a deeper form of listening and sonic perspective in a way that many field recordings do, without containing any direct or concrete sonic references. This is at the heart of what makes Even The Horizon one of English’s more compelling releases as of late.
  2. Mojo
    Feb 4, 2025
    80
    An often beautiful, occasionally intimidating 48-minute environment piece. [Mar 2025, p.86]
  3. The Wire
    Feb 4, 2025
    80
    As the work progresses, the architectural aspects of English’s music become apparent and alive, with the aural suggestion of fluid movement within rigid structures, frames that can hold and refract spatial mysteries. By “V” and “VI” the movement of amorphous sonic forms becomes magisterial, the air, increasingly heavenly. [Mar 2025, p.48]
  4. Uncut
    Feb 4, 2025
    70
    As with most ambient works, English's LP plays best as a set piece, through gauzy, soft-gushing epic "V" is a particular beauty. [Jan 2025, p.34]