Auscultation - IV Vinyl LP Finer Sounds keeping perfect pace with Q-Tip's

keeping perfect pace with Q-Tip's unmistakable mic-touch ("Electric Relaxation")

and cosmic consciousness

Helado Negro’s This Is How You Smile

and Knoel Scott featuring Marshall Allen

or the lack of it that are at once personal and universal

Auscultation - IV Vinyl LP Finer Sounds keeping perfect pace with Q-Tip'sAfter six years of purgatorial sway, Joel Shanahans Auscultation project returns with a fourth full length of dazzling, convex electronics: IV. His signature production touches have only heightened in the interim: iridescent synths; dexterous bass; slinky networks of pads and percussion; regal, rolling fog. Icy bangers of isolation and beauty crafted over long Pacific Northwest winters of endless rain. The album evolved fitfully, polished and shelved