Pendant (aka Huerco S.) - Make Me Know You Sweet

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Artist: Pendant aka Huerco S.
Title: Make Me Know You Sweet
Label: West Mineral Ltd.
Catalogue: OUEST099
Format: 2x12
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Release Date: 2018

Tracklist:

A1. VVQ-SSJ - (00:00)
A2. BBN-UWZ - (11:13)
B1. AAE-KZT - (18:04)
B2. IBX-BZC - (25:12)
C1. KVL-LWQ (feat. Pontiac Streator) - (35:46)
C2. OXI-GKK - (44:28)
D. NMQ-HYT - (50:52)

Pendant is the artist formerly known as Huerco S, and this is the debut release on his new label West Mineral Ltd, following on from his acclaimed ‘For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)’ album.

The artist sometimes known as Huerco S. ushers a phase shift of sound on the shoegazing harmonic gauze of Make Me Know You Sweet, his immersive debut proper under the Pendant alias. In this horizontal mode he relays abstract stories from a headspace beyond the dance, placing his interests in the Romantic landscapes of JMW Turner, Robert Ashley’s avant-garde enigmas, and Indigenous North American philosophy at the service of a more expressive, oneiric sound that sub/consciously avoids the trapfalls of ‘chillout’ ambient cliché. 

Across seven amorphous, texturally detailed tracks he establishes far reaching coordinates for both Pendant and the West Mineral label, which aims to release everything except commonly accepted, traditional forms of late 20th/early 21st century dance music, while also representing the work of his inner circle of friends, producers and artists. In that sense there’s a definite feeling of “no place like home” to his new work, but that home appears altered, much in the same way The Caretaker/Leyland Kirby deals with themes of memory and nostalgia.

It’s best described as mid-ground music, as opposed to the putative background purpose of Ambient styles, or the upfront physicality of dance music. Rather, the sound here billows and unfurls with a paradoxically static chaos, occupying and lurking a space between the eyes and ears in a way that’s not necessarily comforting, and feels to question the nature and relevance of ubiquitous pastoral, new age tropes in the modern era of uncertainty and disingenuity.

The results ponder an impressionistic, romantically ambiguous simulacra of reel life worries and anxiety, feeling at once dense and impending yet without centre. From the keening, 11 minute swell of VVQ-SSJ at the album’s prow, to the similar scope of its closer, Pendant presents an absorbing vessel for introspection, modulating the listener’s depth perception and moderating our intimacy with an elemental push and pull between the curdling, bittersweet froth of BBN-UWZ, the dusky obfuscation of IBX-BZC and, in the supremely evocative play of phosphorescing light and seductive darkness in the mottled depths of KVL-LWQ, which also benefits from additional production by Pontiac Streator.

Make Me Know You Sweet taps into a latent, esoteric vein of American spirituality that’s always been there, yet is only divined by those who remain open-minded to its effect. 
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[troubledobamason]

ambient music just hits that niche for me. its always been a good buddy for my anxiety, and this album is really hitting the spot❤

[filippo]

Brian Leeds is making the best ambient music in the world nowdays

[martvolk]

Excellent Album!! Zoned me out just right like "For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)’" did back in the days! Big Love!

[sofisiradze]

For those of you who have never And for those who have..
So amazing and beautiful 🎶💜

[okotoko]

for me it's BBN-UWZ. the arpeggiated chimes that come in around 17:13 are a highlight and probably one of my fav sounds of any ambient record. it's the perfect way to gently disrupt the loop of a song while fully retaining it's lullaby quality

[UksiHattu]

Somehow I managed to miss this one. Thanks for sharing this record on YT.

[mnchls]

this lp is the very essence of ambient music - 10/10
brian has outdone himself yet again

[diegonasdaq]

One of my favorite releases of this year

[kemkal]

truly a fascinating album... very warm and soft yet also foreboding and strangely mesmerizing. music that feels like it works telepathically. music that fills the room with a strange ineffable presence.

[musicsmymedicine]

could listen to the last track NMQ-HYT for ever

[BRADBURY]

it works. curiously life affirming. it's like a walk in the park on a beautiful day. thanks

[ChaosTitties]

1991 and Pendant keeping me alive in 2018

[iamthepiratesignal]

Huerco S is amazing. I'm playing a game called Endless Space 2 and this is the perfect soundtrack

[canobenitez]

B2. IBX-BZC Sounds straight taken from an alien ship buried in the deep of the jungle. Awesome stuff

[JiandiP]

I had zero knowledge of ambient and found For Those Of You... back when it came out. I fell in love w that timeless piece of art. It's like the thing is alive and different every time I visit. I have a few questions:
1) Why hasn't he released more music? Is Pendant his new name?
2) Any recommendations on other great pieces of living art?

[jean-baptistejacques]

Thank you for mentioning that Pendant is in fact Huerco S. ! I love For Those Of You Who Have Never, I find pretty much the same content here, thay's cool

[peiolopez]

Purismo ambient tropecientos años después de la primera música conceptual de Brian Eno... y (casi) todos contentos.

[UnDreamnt]

Like peaceful street music but dancing instead of walking...

[lliessetilda]

Space Afrika land a bridge getting it, even if I heard about Huerco before.

[step]

Love Huerco S., but this Pendant album makes me feel like everyone's trying to catch up to what Tim Hecker was doing like 15 years ago. I put this on, paused it, and then just went and put on Harmony in Ultraviolet.