Depths (Windy & Carl album)

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Depths
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 23, 1998 (1998-03-23)
Genre
Length70:01
Label Kranky
Windy & Carl chronology
Antarctica: The Bliss Out, Vol. 2
(1997)
Depths
(1998)
Consciousness
(2001)

Depths is the fourth studio album by American musical duo Windy & Carl. It was released on March 23, 1998 by the record label Kranky. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 9.3/10 [3]

Pitchfork ranked Depths as the 36th best ambient album of all time in 2016; in an accompanying essay, Mark Richardson cited it as "a peak" in Windy & Carl's "run of classic drone records" on the Kranky label. [4] Two years later, Pitchfork listed Depths as the 49th best album of 1998. [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Carl Hultgren and Windy Weber.

No.TitleLength
1."Sirens"7:06
2."Undercurrent"4:41
3."Set Adrift"6:35
4."Depths"19:02
5."The Silent Ocean"3:35
6."Aquatica"15:45
7."Surfacing"13:17
Total length:70:01

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [6]

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References

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  2. Bush, John. "Depths – Windy & Carl". AllMusic . Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  3. Josephes, Jason. "Windy and Carl: Depths". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on December 24, 2001. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  4. "The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time". Pitchfork . September 26, 2016. p. 2. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  5. "The 50 Best Albums of 1998". Pitchfork . February 12, 2018. p. 1. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  6. Depths (liner notes). Windy & Carl. Kranky. 1998. krank024.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)