Rival Consoles Returns with New Album: Landscape From Memory

After a year away from actively producing, Rival Consoles (Ryan Lee West) [Tape Op #141], has returned with new release, Landscape From Memory. On creating the album in part with audio snippets and ideas from years past, West says, "There is a kind of strange beauty to it because it involves the past, present and future in a very strong way."

Landscape From Memory feels like one of Rival Consoles most cohesive and fully realized collections from top to bottom. West has always had the unique ability to paint pictures and scenes with sound, and as this is certainly true on some of my favorite Rival Console tracks like 2015's "Odyssey" and 2020's "Melodica", the music on Landscape From Memory goes even further in this soundscape development. There is plenty on this album to enjoy with a microscopic ear, dissecting the layers of synths and drums dancing with each other, the sonic landscapes laid out at times like infinite interstellar super highways, and at others more intimate spaces, but what I really love is to put on this music and let it reshape and redefine the everyday terrestrial world.

Released on the London-based Erased Tapes label, Landscape From Memory was produced by Ryan Lee West, mixed by West and Aneek Thapar, and mastered by Zino Mikorey.