Lend Me Your Ears (BLOG)

To these ears Simon Scott’s <i>Below Sea Level</i> package for 12k is one of the year’s key releases – not just a stand-out album of glowingly warm, densely textured excursions into landscape & memory (stream the radiant “__Sealevel 2” below), but also a hugely impressive 80-page book of thoughts & photography that bid to shore up an increasingly fragile environment, if only by expressionist preservation.