Accidental Sky

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Accidental Sky
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 16, 2015 (2015-10-16)
Recorded2015
Genre Improvised music
Length35:45
Label Northern Spy
Nels Cline chronology
Macroscope
(2015)
Accidental Sky
(2015)
Lovers
(2016)
White Out chronology
Asphalt and Delay
(2011)
Accidental Sky
(2015)

Accidental Sky is an album by experimental music group White Out with guitarist Nels Cline which was released in October 2015 on the Northern Spy label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 6.9/10 [2]

Pitchfork's Raymond Cummings rated the album 6.9 out of 10, saying, "What's most frustrating isn't ultimately that Sky doesn't make it beyond the stratosphere, but that some of these songs should go on longer; they need more space to stretch, breathe, expand into stranger, deeper realms." [2] Relix correspondent Jesse Jarnow noted: "keyboardist Lin Culbertson and drummer Tom Surgal provide a lush and constantly shifting bed for Cline’s sweet Tom Verlaine/Duane Allman-y volume swells. On the album's best pieces, the trio achieves three-dimensionality, percussion and keyboards and guitar melting in and out of one another to form abstruse landscapes with dancing horizons." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Nels Cline, Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal.

  1. "Imperative" – 6:07
  2. "Ragged Mist of Stalled Horizon" – 6:46
  3. "Sirius Missing" – 4:52
  4. "Winter Light" – 3:16
  5. "Exaltation by Proxy" – 6:37
  6. "Under a Void Moon" – 5:41
  7. "Soft, Nameless, Absolute" – 4:32

Personnel

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References

  1. Northern Spy Records album entry Archived 2015-09-19 at the Wayback Machine , accessed August 22, 2016
  2. 1 2 Cummings, Raymond. "White Out Accidental Sky". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
  3. Jarnow, J. Relix review, November 16, 2015