Steve Hauschildt
Dissolvi
Release Date: Aug 3, 2018
Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
Record label: Ghostly International
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Album Review: Dissolvi by Steve Hauschildt
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Steve Hauschildt's fifth solo album is his most collaborative work since the breakup of Emeralds, the heralded ambient trio he co-founded in 2006. Unlike his other solo works, Dissolvi was recorded in a proper studio, primarily in Hauschildt's new home city of Chicago. Rafael Anton Irisarri co-produced the album and provided instruments, effects, and programming on several tracks, and Taylor Deupree contributed a patch to one track.
Based on rating 7.5/10
Steve Hauschildt has spent the last decade deconstructing the sound his former band, Emeralds, reveled in. Rather than reliving their past glories, he has isolated distinct elements embedded in the drone mavens' works--gossamer kosmische, fuzzily tactile swaths of noise, the cool glow of early electronic music, the rhythmic hum of synth-driven post-rock in the Trans Am mold--while pushing those styles to a pretty, fully-realized zenith. In a review of 2016's Strands, Philip Sherburne noted the Cleveland artist's remarkable consistency, and how that had brought a sense of familiarity to his latest works.
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