Opinions
»The ambient abstractions of Gothenburg’s Thomas Ekelund are curilously affecting, blending low resolution drones, musical and non-musical treatments and fieldrecordings with unadorned directness [...] Ekelunds rare ability to instil emotion into the machines is admirable« - by Keith Moliné, Wire
»It’s a piece that works particularly well as a locomotive companion. I tried this out the other day and couldn’t help but imagine the train riding the wall of sound seeping from my headphones. The rapidly shifting landscape outside seemed to exist solely as a backdrop to Dead Letters’ creation. Given the majestic beauty and generally surreal feeling of staring at a forest at 200 km/h, that’s quite a compliment.«
- by Mats Gustavsson, Dusted Magazine
»The drone is dense, the beats, if you could call them that, are illogical and discordant. Ekelund's manipulations confront a smattering of sideline, negligible sounds. He tweaks small objects making them sound like they are caught adrift in a 50MPH wind upon a craggy rock garden or snow tires on open pavement. Encrusted with a startling combination of ambient science.« - by TJ Norris, Igloo
»Det här är ambient drone-musik skapat av smådelar och skrapljud, avslappning för sakletare, eller kanske Akira Rabelais som pillar sönder både en gammal Labradford-LP och David Grubbs piano.« - by Petter Ottosson, Fat Bankroll
»Jag misstänker att det finns många som tror att den här typen av musik är kall och opersonlig. DLSODW är ett bevis på motsatsen. Tydliga fingeravtryck. Och en inbjudan att spetsa öronen och gå in i en fängslande ljudvärld.« - by PM Jönsson, Göteborgs Posten
»His computer is a blender in which he throws all the elements - ambience, field recordings (some rumblings of contact microphones going on here), synths - and all of this is stirred well and together with a large dose of computer processing, it's music that is influenced by the ambience surrounding them.« - by Frans de Waard, from Vital Weekly
»11 Instances of Dead Letters + Words is the kind of album you hate to describe. It touches too many bases, evokes too many comparisons that can only be incomplete and partial. The music draws on the abstract experiments of lowercase and minimal ambient and the sweet melancholia of post-rock and cottage drone music to create its own space. « - by François Couture, All Music Guide
»If 11 Instances sounds old, like it was somehow always there, it's because we're always surrounded by music like this. The hum inside the concrete stairwell that leads down to the basement furnace or the
clanging of dishes in the restaurant kitchen behind the swinging doors-all we have to do is tune in. And great records like 11 Instances of Dead Letters+Words remind us how.« - by Mark Richardson, Grooves
»Med 11 Instances of Dead Letters+Words har Ekelund dog produceret et ekstremt stemningsfyldt album, der på sine bedste numre formår at være næsten hårrejsende melankolsk og dystert.« - by Morten Bruhn, from Geiger
»This is a carefully crafted album of bleak metallic, mechanical recorded sounds thoroughly processed and looped through his computer, with the slightest touch of Eno-ish musical tones. The result is a shining example of the ambient/electronic ‘lowercase’ genre (I think), where emphasis is placed on empty spaces, quiet sounds, and introspective moods.« - by Cujo, from KFJC
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