In some ways, Shackleton is a musical shaman. Across a 20-year career — including 2012’s monumental Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs and recent collaborative highlight The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now — the acclaimed producer has guided listeners on a journey through the outer perimeters of spiritual dub, Carnatic music, alternative tuning methods, prog, German folk, and free jazz. It is an undeniably intoxicating mix and, at times, an overwhelming one: Listening to it can be like entering a room filled with thick incense smoke and esoteric objects; everything is primed to get you in the zone, especially the devotional chanting.
Yet with Euphoria Bound, his solo follow-up to 2023’s The Scandal of Time, the haze that…

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