LOSCIL - Ash

2025 has given us a Scott Morgan in splendid form, finally back to authoring an album worthy of his standards. In "Lake Fire", the electronics of Loscil found renewed momentum and dynamism, drawing inspiration from a journey through the mountains of British Columbia scarred by wildfires. Transformed into an audiovisual performance staged across Europe and Canada, the album and its live materials now become the starting point for a new photo/music publication with an emblematic title.

The core of the work is in fact the image of what remains: rigorously black-and-white photographs of fire-ravaged trees, of residual charcoal, of a landscape turned spectral, combined with pure geometries and warm colours. To accompany them, the Canadian musician opts for extreme rarefaction, in the form of synthetic nebulae freely expanding. The vocabulary is pure ambient, stripped of any pulsing intersections, inclined to build slowly unfolding harmonic movements. A saturated sound that favours drone, almost entirely giving up the dub attitude, though at times still finding low frequencies of clear Loscil pedigree ("Carbon", "Ember").

It's the aching tone and meditative attitude of its predecessor that are carried forward here, with tracks such as "Crown" and "Cholla" becoming an essential distillation of the nervous atmospheres of "Spark" and "Flutter". A tendency toward monochrome that echoes the visual component of the zine, only a partial and apparent toning-down of the majesty of Scott Morgan's sound.

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07/01/2026