Tristan Welch: Ambient Distress Out Today (Somewherecold Records, 2020)
As we round out the year, one of our last few releases is an incredibly offering by Tristan Welch. A long await release for the label, it’s exciting to finally reveal Ambient Distress to the world. Produced in the middle of the psychological chaos of a brittle world shackled by capitalism and incompetence, Ambient Distress is definitely a perfect entry into Welch‘s catalog. The ambient textures here pitch and shake with touches of disquiet with undertones of anticipated hope. Quite frankly, if Welch‘s album is not in your top ambient lists for the year, then you haven’t really been listening.
Welch is a Washington, D.C. artist and constructs his albums at the center of the political torrent that is the U.S. government. Get a copy of Ambient Distress. You will not be disappointed!