x.y.r. - Aquarealm (Not Not Fun)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like

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What We Say

It's always nice to get a new release from x.y.r. & it's another winner from Not Not Fun. This time he heads away from palm fringed shores, takes a deep breath & slips into warm, turquoise waters to explore the last great unknown, in this serene ambient dive devoid of earth's surface noise.

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What The Release Notes Say

he tenth official full-length by St. Petersburg synth savant Vladimir Karpov aka X.Y.R. is a liquid suite of surreal tranquility, divined and designed to soundtrack the shimmering mysteries of underwater life: Aquarealm. Inspired by vintage Soviet cartoons, nature documentaries, and his own colorful aquarium fish, the album’s seven songs share a mood of contemplative depths and dizzying beauty, adrift in deepwater currents and bioluminescent tides. Hazy tones swell and swirl while crystalline keys, loops, and echoes swim in the periphery, rising like bubbles to the surface. 

Karpov describes these compositions as flights of fantasy, born of an oceanic muse as idyllic as it is infinite. It’s music simultaneously serene and cinematic, conjuring blue horizons of kelp forests swaying above rainbow reefs, casting shadowplay on sandy floors. A realm both real and imagined, submerged but transcendent, rippling from the mind’s eye to the great beyond.

CREDITS
​Written, produced and recorded by Vladimir Karpov. 
Mastered by Alex Nagle. 
Art & design by Dieter Durinck.

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