Adlib

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Adlib’s self-titled release was the only album under this alias for electronics producer Kristian Peters. He also released a few albums after this one as Novisad; those were more open, more friendly collections, though they still preferred the miniature and the minimal over the grand gesture. But Adlib is, perhaps, the most potent dose of Peters’s music, a lovely, quiet place of repose and seeming stasis. At times, it feels like a low fidelity take on Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project; although instead of the slow, regal advance through German forests, this is a humble traipse through knotted woodlands and thorny thickets. But that smaller scale means you can achieve a more intimate relationship with the music here, and Peters is particularly skilled at taking a few very simple textures, tones, or drones, and weaving them so you sense they should always have been part of the same textile, a soft fabric with the occasional slub.

Jon Dale

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