lfs 011 – Lo Fi Sunsets – The Horizontal Society

Lo Fi Sunsets marks The Horizontal Society’s fourth release on lo fi spiritual and their first release of 2021.

True to their sound, The Horizontal Society offers a palette of warm, tape-saturated tambura drones slowed down to an almost catatonic state. These drones are then woven with layers of nature field recordings to suspend the listener in a surreal, timeless earthly domain.

Murky, trance-inducing rhythms occasionally swell through the immersive haze of sound to guide the listener through the wall of sound. Again adding to the hypnotic suspension of time.

At other points, the use of ancient emotive motifs in voice and synthesised sound, direct the listener’s mood state to a more sentimental space.

The essence of the title and the inspiration behind this release is the setting sun, in particular, the stunning sunsets over the escarpment of the South Coast NSW, as featured on the front cover.

Lo Fi Sunsets brings the listener into a space that speaks of the nostalgia and beauty of the setting sun and is a testament to The Horizontal Society’s ability to capture nuance.

We hope you get to enjoy this release as a soundtrack to the sunset in your neighbourhood. Alternatively, we hope Lo Fi Sunsets helps you suspend time at any point in the day or night.