Reviews of Northern (Re-Issue) [12k2009]

Il suono rimane smarrito e imbambolato, una fluttuante immobilità giocata su colorazioni neutre e il dolce solletico di piccole onde che massaggiano placidamente l’apparato uditivo.

Northern is an essential record that sits with The Disintegration Loops and Pale Ravine as the Holy Trinity of Ambient.

As compositions sound out tenuous themes and brittle near-melodies, Deupree inserts frigid and tense silences where they might not be expected, and extends certain passages longer than one might think they should go on.

Consistent with such background detail, Northern’s music emerges as a highly personalized portrait of long-form soundscaping that’s generally subtly elegiac and wistful in tone.

A striking degree of “realness”: A sonic volubility and emotive vulnerability which will be hard to follow up on.

That sort of thing. Deupree’s music belongs to the absolute top in the field of ambient glitch/microsound and this new version of Northern is another fine example.