Belong – Realistic IX LP

Realistic IX, the third full-length by the duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich aka Belong, is both an expansion and excavation of their signature acid-washed songcraft. Bleached guitars, metronomic drums, and buried voices rev, swirl, and seethe across shifting gradients of haze and hypnosis, alternately driving and diffuse. Melodies surge closer to the surface, flexing their form before resubmerging into quickening currents of feedback. Elsewhere the elements dissipate into a dusk of murk and microtonalities, electricity liberated back into infinite night.

Although it’s been thirteen years since Belong’s prior Kranky offering, Common Era, none of the duo’s rare synergy has decayed in the interim. Jones and Dietrich’s commitment to oblique states of motorik drone and liminal emotion continues to evolve and unfold, increasingly tactile and unreal, an alluring glow glimpsed through fogged windows at witching hours.

Label: Kranky – 242

Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo

Country: US

Released: Aug 9, 2024

Genre: Electronic

Style: Ambient

Tracklist

A1 Realistic (I’m Still Waiting)

A2 Difficult Boy

A3 Crucial Years

A4 Souvenir

B1 Image Of Love

B2 Bleach

B3 Jealousy

B4 AM/PM