Go Outside - Resilience (Self Release)
- The Slow Music Movement
- Apr 7
- 1 min read
Go Outside is known to his family as Andrew Shaffer, an ambient artist from Vermont on a mission to bring the outside inside and inject some grass stains, fresh air and sunshine through the speakers and headphones of concrete entombed urbanites the world over.
On his new album, and sparked by difficult personal circumstances, he's asking a question many of us have thinking recently, "Why, why, why?". Just check the daily news cycle if you need to know why he's asking why?
Surprisingly considering the inspiration for Resilience there is a pleasant warmth permeating the LP. Synths twinkle like the summer sun squeezing through the forest canopy. The local fauna, who fortunately don't know what Fox News is, chime in with perfectly weighted sounds of encouragement as minimal guitar refrains and palliative synths weave themselves through the soundscape, even adding a moment of intensity and drama on "Strength / Together" the LP's halfway mark and impassioned call for unity in adversity. It also paves the way nicely for the more electroacoustic, ambient folk second half with its contemplative picking adding some welcome musicality to the good natured atmospherics.
If you too have been asking "Why?, then you could do a lot worse than sink into this shimmering, ultimately optimistic LP from one of the ambient good guys, and if you really want to do yourself some good then take a break from the urban intensity and listen to it on on the way to the nearest bit of countryside. Why not?
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