Leif swears off the ambient house of 2021’s ‘9 Airs’ and rediscovers his childhood guitar on Collide, visualising a shattered kosmische approximation that’ll surely speak to fans of Shackleton or James Holden.
If there’s a thread that links all of Welsh producer Lief Knowles’ albums, it’s memory. ‘Collide’ doesn’t aesthetically sound much like its predecessor, but there’s a shared sense of communion with the past. On ‘9 Airs’, Knowles attempted to rework old melodies into new compositions and on ‘Collide’, his decaying Aria Pro II electric guitar is used to recapture an era that’s slipping away. What sets this one apart is its commitment to the concept; Knowles has circled the dancefloor for years, muddling his foggy ambient tent-friendly…
Leif – Collide (2025)
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