Name: Sinking Into a Miracle
Brand: Amor

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Bonus disc: No

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LSSN066RT

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Rough Trade Exclusive Clear LP. Includes Bonus CD.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-12-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060446122815

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Amor

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Night School

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The debut album from Glaswegians Richard Youngs (vocals), Michael Francis Duch (bass), Paul Thomson (percussion/drums) and Luke Fowler (synths/keys), is a playful and mysterious piece, spilling over with funky optimism and blissed out beats.

The strands of melody play and shift around as a dancing bass drags you on to the (surely) flashing dancefloor. Handclaps and percussion permeate throughout, embellishing the tracks with infectious accoutrement. The vocals have a face-to-sun euphoria. They call out while funk-synths whoop and thrumming drums rattle. The loops carry you along in a river of laidback shuffling carnival Afro-grooves.

An enveloping album splashed with new-age positivity, a clear-eyed glimpse of the future powered by mutant disco rhythms, plaintive piano and hypnotic mantras.

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Amor is a talented sound engineer with a passion for creating immersive musical experiences. With [number] years of experience in the industry, Amor has worked with renowned artists and labels to produce high-quality tracks that captivate listeners.
Known for their meticulous attention to detail and technical expertise, Amor brings a unique perspective to every project they work on. Their ability to blend different sounds and genres seamlessly has earned them recognition as one of the most sought-after sound engineers in the music industry.
Whether it's mixing, mastering, or audio production, Amor's dedication to delivering exceptional results shines through in every aspect of their work. With an extensive knowledge of cutting-edge technology and equipment, they consistently push boundaries to create innovative sonic landscapes that leave a lasting impression.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Amor's debut album Sinking Into A Miracle. Available here on Rough Trade Exclusive Clear Colored LP. All Versions come with a Exclusive Four Track Bonus CD featuring the two Vinyl only 12"s from 2017 Paradise and Higher Moment.

Sinking Into A Miracle is the debut album by Glasgow’s Amor, a quartet of musical travellers exploring the sonic open-ended-ness of dance music. Following two critically acclaimed 12” Single releases, Sinking Into A Miracle is a fully developed treatise on ecstasy and transcendence. Here, Richard Youngs, Michael Francis Duch, Paul Thomson and Luke Fowler are more honed, razor sharp in focus and timing, testing their instrumental prowess on condensed song structures and new, enlightened feelings of expansive hope and bliss. From the outset it’s an ambitious yet ultimately inclusive journey they are embarking on.

Recorded to 24-track tape at Chem 19 and mixed by Paul Savage and Richard McMaster (Golden Teacher), Sinking Into A Miracle retains the elastic grooves of Paradise and Higher Moment, the group’s previous single releases, but relinquishes the classic Philadelphia International tinged sound in favour of more looser rhythmic patterns. There are new depths to the compositions ; a more free-flowing approach to percussion and deft experiments in hybridity, making for a full and rounded, emotionally tinged record. Indeed, there are times when Amor sound like the lost house band from David Mancuso's Loft parties: Richard Youngs’ uplifting, gospel tinged lyrics talk about moving beyond, universal truths, sailing through the horizon. It’s a wide-eyed optimism Mancuso would perhaps have approved of and which is embroidered with spectral details that begs to be auditioned on large, tweaked out sound-systems. On Glimpses Across Thunder, Youngs’ piano chords echo early Blue Nile atmospherics before the band take the song into a funked, minor chord territory that feels endlessly searching, never to resolve. Opener Phantoms Of The Sun relies on Duch’s sublime bass line to drive a dubbed out track complete with a utopian flute refrain. Full Fathom Future stomps relentlessly forward on the back of Thomson’s percussion-heavy groove before collapsing into a moving three chord epilogue played on droning string instruments.

Heaven Among The Days introduces a more robotic groove to the album, with a short bass refrain bouncing off stripped drum triggers, its dark rhythms reminiscent of the proto-House tracks that were trademarked by Chicago DJ Ron Hardy. Whilst Youngs contemplates the prospect of heaven in our daily lives Fowler's gliding synthesiers chords underline the more devotional potential of Amor's music. Sinking Into A Miracle ends with the sublime, Truth Of Life the most expansive and transporting of these compositions. Here the studio as instrument is used to full effect, with the rhythm section in full flow as the melodic elements are twisted, delayed, swaddled in tape echo, delaying gratification before a full, thrilling drop into blissful pleasure.

LP+ - Rough Trade Exclusive Clear Colored LP. Includes Bonus CD.