Ryan Lee West’s ninth studio album continues his exploration of analogue synths and complex programming, though now with a greater emotional appeal, an open-hearted love letter compared to the occasionally opaque avant-gardisms of previous work.
Catherine speaks directly to the object of the album’s attentions, and the song’s expansive synths pre-empt the ingenuity that makes Landscape from Memory endlessly intriguing. Each note feels considered, bleeds and overlaps into the next, creating an intricate cross-hatched series of interlinked sounds. Like a pattern in the sky formed of chemtrails, it has the feel of an organic or divine process, while clearly being the work of carefully constructed pre-planning.

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