Super Minerals
The Pelagics

Longtime agitators of the most acid and cathartic underground of contemporary America, Super Minerals made their mark in 2008 with a vast array of publications, sublimated by ambitious works like "The Thaw" for Not Not Fun or what, in hindsight, could be defined as a supergroup: Magic Lantern, with Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw).

Among these, "The Pelagics" is certainly the most focused concept. Five tracks, five pelagic zones, and five nearly infinite streams of consciousness. The ocean as a place of abstraction and perdition, naturalism, and antispeciesism. Interminable drones, laid upon saturated reverberations on a large scale and tolling bells drowned in the irregular oscillation of broader frequencies. The recording quality, indeed hyper-approximate, becomes here both a tool and a symbol, representative of the concept expressed by the album, recreating a shroud, like listening to the ocean from a boombox inside a cave.

William Giacchi and Phil French succeed here in merging the pure and the impure, abstraction and alienation. A perfect and syncretic sum of the parts, achieved by subtraction.