Realistic IX, by Belong

Realistic IX

by Belong

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a. A very clinical interpretation of shoegaze. Favorite track: Souvenir.

Jah Leopard still cant believe this is happening. please don't make me wait until I'm in my 50's to hear the next one. Favorite track: AM / PM.

theemantis Starting now… how many fucking comments are gonna contain the words “ fever dream.”

As if, it’s the latest catch phrase!!!

Thanx Josh.

Cheers Turk and Mike.

Your latest album has kept me alive.

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1.	Realistic (I’m Still Waiting) 04:48	buy track
2.	Difficult Boy 02:31	buy track
3.	Crucial Years 02:55	buy track
4.	Souvenir 03:56	buy track
5.	Image of Love 04:38	buy track
6.	Bleach 06:04	buy track
7.	Jealousy 04:29	buy track
8.	AM / PM 07:44	buy track

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Realistic IX, the third full-length by the duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich aka Belong, is both an expansion and excavation of their signature acid-washed songcraft. Bleached guitars, metronomic
drums, and buried voices rev, swirl, and seethe across shifting gradients of haze and hypnosis, alternately driving and diffuse. Melodies surge closer to the surface, flexing their form before resubmerging into quickening currents of feedback. Elsewhere the elements dissipate into a dusk of murk and microtonalities, electricity liberated back into infinite night.

Although it’s been 13 years since Belong’s prior Kranky offering, Common Era, none of the duo’s rare synergy has decayed in the interim. Jones and Dietrich’s commitment to oblique states of motorik drone and liminal emotion continues to evolve and unfold, increasingly tactile and unreal, an alluring glow glimpsed through fogged windows at witching hours.

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released August 9, 2024

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