{"product_id":"ml-buch-suntub-extras-10","title":"ML Buch - Suntub Extras (10\")","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in the wake of ML Buch\u0026#39;s art-pop modern classic \u0026#39;Suntub\u0026#39;, \u0026quot;Suntub Extras\u0026quot; paints in similar shades, fixing up its precision-engineered sketches in a personal space between Kate Bush\u0026#39;s \u0026#39;Hounds of Love\u0026#39;, OPN\u0026#39;s \u0026#39;Replica\u0026#39; and Cocteau Twins\u0026#39; \u0026#39;Victorialand\u0026#39;. Without the pop accouterments that made \u0026#39;Suntub\u0026#39; so tantalizing to the almost-mainstream, Buch\u0026#39;s tangled productions lay bare the various ingredients that have shaped her taste over the years. Fleetwood Mac was maybe the most obvious reference back in 2023 and undoubtedly her vocal harmonies and precision songwriting looped right back into the radio rock of the \u0026#39;70s and \u0026#39;80s, but strip the vocal away and something very different emerges. Her repeating guitar phrases - heard so vividly on the gorgeous \u0026#39;Sway walking\u0026#39; - sound far more meditative and moving when they\u0026#39;re isolated, decoupling the music from AOR and jacking it directly into the new age continuum. Here, Buch has more in common with Daniel Lopatin (or even Mark McGuire), playing out familiar riffs but treating them as if they\u0026#39;re Reichian iterations. She introduces a larger (laptop-powered) ensemble on \u0026#39;Suncrumb trail, Staging\u0026#39;, providing a virtual tune-up with willowy guitars, boxy drums and that warm fretless bass that was all over \u0026#39;Hounds of Love\u0026#39;. But as soon as any of these tracks seem to move towards their goal, Buch inevitably cuts away to a different scene. Here, she diverts our ears to alt-rock pastiche \u0026#39;Growing eyes, Blade of cloud, Rolling chill\u0026#39;, caking her Rembrants guitars in tape echo before picking up the thread again on the generous \u0026#39;Moving Light, Change\u0026#39;, a slo-mo reverie that provides the album with its thematic apex. But it\u0026#39;s the brief finale that has our hearts; on the impeccably-titled \u0026#39;Halfdark, Slow blinking\u0026#39;, Buch accurately duplicates Robin Guthrie\u0026#39;s groggy processes, strumming decelerated chords into cavernous echoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1363692765\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;https:\/\/mlbuch.bandcamp.com\/album\/suntub-extras\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Suntub extras ML Buch\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"15 LOVE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49746645909763,"sku":"FTL 018","price":4194.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/0047710725_10.jpg?v=1790935250","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/ml-buch-suntub-extras-10","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}