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The Best People Are Like Water

by Concave Reflection

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Calvin Fredrickson
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Calvin Fredrickson I WILL LEARN TO VALUE WHAT REMAINS AFTER A MOMENT Favorite track: Moments.
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saving hex such a beautiful record thank u <3 Favorite track: Moments.
matthew dowdy
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matthew dowdy full of love and life, ty tommy
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MW a beautiful slow burn of an album to wrap myself in when I need a cocoon.
ily Tommy <3
Harrison Phinney
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Harrison Phinney my high expectations were for once not disappointed here. the junglist tropes never overwhelm the mixes, and there’s always a sense of space despite the breaks. from front to back an immersive, inspiring experience.

my favorite from the first half is Same Kind of Dumb, but First Loves steals the show for me, the highlight of an album which I’ll be spending a lot of time with. Favorite track: First Loves And Lasting Loves.
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Theory Therapy’s first cassette release comes from Concave Reflection aka Tommy Paslaski, one-third of Chicago-based group Purelink.

Calm but rarely completely beatless, The Best People Are Like Water hovers in the interstice between the club and the comedown. The tape consists of 11 immersive tracks that split the difference between atmospheric downtempo and hypnagogic ambient. Side A is predominantly beat-based, channeling the best elements of ’90s chillout room music, while side B is a more celestial affair — the aural equivalent of noctilucent clouds swirling slowly in the sky.

The album displays many of the qualities found in Purelink's music — syncopated breakbeats, pristinely mixed drums and airy atmospherics — but an added sense of intimacy runs across its 11 tracks. Paslaski has described his process as "layering and layering until I have a cohesive thought, then sometimes playing my loop pedal cello stuff over it and seeing where it takes me". This improvisational approach translates into an album that feels aleatory, organic and extremely personal, as though it was produced by some arcane and abstract method, like wind roiling midnight air or slowly crystallising water.

The Best People Are Like Water was mastered by Joseph Buchan aka Other Joe. Ben (kindtree) consulted on mixing for the A side. All tracks were written and produced by Tommy Paslaski.

There are a limited run of 50 cassettes, all made from recycled materials.

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released March 4, 2022

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Kata Szász - @tiny_handsz www.katakomlos.com

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