Pacific Heights – The Stillness

Pacific Heights’ album The Stillness is aptly named.

There is constancy and there is calm in this collection of sounds; beats that don’t encourage movement and don’t want any dancing pump like blood through the music, sometimes louder and sometimes so quiet its almost hard to hear.

Space stretches inside the music, expanding so slowly it doesn’t appear to be moving, taking in everything like a blackhole. Variation announces itself periodically, naturally morphing and regenerating song to song.

Listeners can only respond by imbibing the sound, taking it in through the pores, not moving. The Stillness pervades the surrounding environment, filling the space with no edge.

This is a spacey album, ambient and varied, it melts into the background soaking up everything around it. (SP)

★★1/2