Trawler Tapes

Simon Shreeve returns to his Mønic guise for a mini-LP of bleak, ambient soundscapes that gently and hauntingly sail from track to track, as if staring out across the vast ocean of the South Coast of England – the base of which is not too far from Shreeve’s own studio. Channeling memories of a recently departed friend, TCW 1915 – 2007 – to whom the sea was a central part of life – through an ambience reminiscent of Lustmord or Aphex Twin, ‘Trawler Tapes’ is a quiet and contemplative journey, and although the beats are nowhere to be seen, unsettling atmospherics of earlier Mønic releases pervade perhaps more than ever before