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NEW DOWNLOAD: THE SIGHT BELOW'S GLIDER LP - OUT NOW

The leaves are changing colors and floating to the ground, the days are getting shorter, the sunlight is paler – fall is here, which means that winter can't be far behind. Ushering in the season's chill is The Sight Below, the reclusive Seattle-based producer whose Glider LP – dropping November 11th on Ghostly – channels his Northwestern climate into beat-based ambient works of exquisite beauty. On Glider, washes of treated guitar drift through achingly subtle beats, building into the sort of melancholy symphonies that could only originate within a chilly, solitary soul. XLR8R says, "Sunny music this is not, but it's easy to picture the reclusive, unnamed producer behind the album hard at work in drizzly Seattle," and the Wired blog says, "These expansive instrumental epics start out icy, but melt easily enough with proper application of the human ear." We say it's so gorgeous it hurts. Here's "Life's Fading Light," a particularly fine example of the The Sight Below's hopeful gloom:

Download: The Sight Below - Life's Fading Light

The Sight Below's No Place for Us EP is available for free download here:

Download: The Sight Below – No Place for Us EP

And check out this video for "Further Away":

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