'The Road to Pentraeth' is the fourth album from Magenta Room, a special alias of Vivarium's resident ambient techno veteran Gareth Sloan and a name under which he concocts some of his most striking and exploratory work. Early into recording, it was clear that 'The Road to Pentraeth' would stand apart from Sloan's trio of prior Magenta Room albums as the most unabashedly ambient. Accents of techno, synthwave, and progressive electronic still bolster the flavor here, but it is clear that Sloan populates a soundscape on this album to a degree of distinction among even his most distinguished creations.
In perpetual quest to hone his sound with each ensuing album, Sloan draws explicit attention to how much a mere four years between this and the first album in this chronology, 'Twilight Magnum', has done for his sound; we hear opener 'Liquid Control' harken back to the dawning motif of the freshman Magenta Room album in stereophonic fullness. From there on, we are treated to one of the most varied and lush entries in Sloan's oeuvre. Teaming up once again with labelrunner CHROM-47 for their longest collaborative work to so denote a Magenta Room album thus far and featuring an authentically lustrous cover photo courtesy of his own mother, Gareth Sloan helms a crowning album in his catalogue with the practiced grace of a master that impresses as effortlessly attuned to his creation.
VR_165 | Released July 19, 2024
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