LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve.
1. ...shortwave nights
2. half-speed addict starts with broken wollensak
3. slowed rugs
4. drake motel / "9 gold cadillacs"
5. windpipe gtrs.
6. halo getters
7. for the transient projectionist
8. ahhh-weee dictaphone
9. test recording at trembling city
10. beijing bullhorn / dopplered light
Running time: 00:44:28
LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve.
"A stunning collection of drifting, ambient soundscapes... Hiss Tracts have made an album of experimental music that feels like it was made to engage rather than alienate, casting aside inscrutability to create something surprisingly fragile and soulful." – All Music Guide
"These artists are on top of their game... The title track, for example, combines post-rock and drone in a manner that defies both. Twin guitars meander in a static field. Cello lends a dark undercurrent, a hand visible beneath the muddy river. A distorted transmission attempts to break through, but succeeds only as the selection is winding down. 'test recording at trembling city' is introduced with crackle – just another broken signal dying in the wires. But by the end, it seems as if every signal in the city is flooding the system at once. Hiss Tracts – the name implying both electricity and evangelism – holds an analog mirror to a digital world, and sweeps up the glass after the mirror has been broken." – A Closer Listen
"Hiss Tracts specialize in... finding both pointillist use for carefully culled sounds and emotive, cinematic effect for the album’s repeating auras of dread, unrest, and wonder. Indeed, Shortwave Nights is an apt title for the album, a forty-five minute short-film of strange buzzing sounds overheard in close proximity, almost intrinsically evocative of witching hours." – The Line Of Best Fit
"The album moves forward as a dreamlike patchwork, with flickering dulcimers melting into decayed cassette tape drones, cut up dictaphone whispers morphing into cinematic ambience, and the ever-present sprawl of the pair’s electric guitars droning, fluttering and yearning in equal measure throughout." – Drowned In Sound
"Lush but sinister, nightmarish but dreamlike, oppressed but elevated. The sustained bell tone and feedback provides ample industrial decay, while the shimmering guitar chord lets a little light into the scene, allowing sudden and brief moments of literal brilliance. Although there is a definite burden to these sounds, a grim sense of dread, Hiss Tracts maintains an uplifting tone." – DECODER
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