Blog: The Decibel Tolls

There's a couple things you'd expect from a solo album of a member of the Black Moth Super Rainbow: vocoder, funky drum beats , and woozy analog synths. On BMSR's The Seven Fields of Aphelion 's new album Periphery , you only get the last one. Closer in sound to Emeralds or Stellar OM Source, Periphery is full of gorgeous ambient synth music that would probably have sounded as natural in 1985 as it does in 2010. On tracks like "Sunburst Chemicals," "Lake Feet," and "Mountain Mary," The Seven Fields of Aphelion plays real live piano, [...]

• The Seven Fields Of Aphelion - Sunburst Chemicals