Scott Morgan, the Vancouver electronic music artist who works under the name loscil, leads a quiet life; the kind of patient, dedicated figure who desires neither cultural omnipresence nor promotional shortcuts, but rather a respectable long game played on fields that tend toward the timeless: graceful ambience, chamber drone, dub-inflected electronics. And while there’s plenty of change across his catalogue, Morgan’s thumbprint has remained distinct.
You can usually tell a loscil production through several compositional and production tics: the thickness of the textures; deft layering and arrangement that affords each sound its own presence in the field; juxtaposition that never feels awkward or ungainly; careful balance of…