Darla's monthly Bliss Out series continues with Piano Magic's nautically obsessed excursion into strikingly broody waters.
Featuring two somnolent 20-minute ambient halves, most of the attention should actually be directed toward the title track.
As it drifts through about three or four main phases -- melodic mantras, underwater pulses, beat-less cries -- its core, grieving vocals by Lucy Gulland punch with the affecting force of a sonic boom.
For that reason alone, Trick of the Sea: Bliss Out, Vol.
13 is surely a quiet masterstroke.
A drowned grandeur that is difficult to resist, it seduces you like a mermaid taking you down to the bottom of the ocean to open your lungs to the sea.