Lac Observation: Pilgrimage to the ‘City of Gandharvas’
Lac Observation’s latest album is a journey to an eternal, ontological climb up the mythological Mount Analogue, circling the peak like the Midgard serpent.
Recorded primarily on 4-track cassette and reel-to-reel, the album’s sound is intensely artifactual, preserving field recordings and jams in a humid, beautiful distortion. This analog texture casts Gufo Mangiasale’s folk-psych writing into a hazy, profound dimension.
Tracks like the kosmische “Greenland Myth” and the sputtering “The Iron Age Jets” map this fragmented journey. The core track, “Splinters in the Mind’s Eye,” explicitly cites Mount Eerie and Joni Mitchell, announcing the album’s goal: to use simple tools to confront the infinite. This is a sublime, analog document of continuous, essential momentum toward the City of Gandharvas.
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