The trees were buzzing, and the grass. cover

The trees were buzzing, and the grass.

Released

Wordcolour, a single person, teamed up with some friends and collaborators and made an intervention this year needed—an ambient album with actually hectic drum programming. We need the ghosts of IDM as badly as we need the ghosts of the petrochemical underworld.

Sasha Frere-Jones

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