Vancouver ambient artist Scott Morgan has made consistently great albums as Loscil, sculpting some of the most penetrating and transformative minimal music of the last two decades. Morgan's day job is work as a sound director in the video game industry, which could account for his incredibly forbearing and restrained approach to albums such as "Plume", which was released by Kranky in 2006. Minimal droning melodies are gently accented by inconspicuous beats, provided by washed-out static pattering and soft xylophones. Loscil cunningly presents his work as background music, until, without notice, one finds that they are enchanted and fully committed to the experience that is "Plume".
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