Audiopile Review: The Silent Season reissues keep coming! A mere week after gushing about Purl’s Stillpoint finally coming to vinyl, ASC follows suit with one of his CD-only releases for the label that’s also been hopelessly OOP for years, now going for eye-popping sums online. Much like Purl, ASC, the UK-born/US-based producer, has been wildly prolific throughout his almost twenty-five years of output, bouncing across drum & bass, techno, drone, ambient and IDM, making it difficult for the uninitiated to pinpoint exactly where to start. For our money, his ambient ventures have been some of his most rewarding, a staggering six full lengths in this mode issued via Silent Season, marking an incredible run that’s now a part of the label’s flagship releases. Despite its intimidating, epic length, Time Heals All is the best of that bunch, initially released as a 2xCD set, now presented here as an expansive 4xLP edition that truly does justice to the towering work. Unlike the Purl album reissued last week, ASC doesn’t soothe frazzled nerves in the same way, despite it being a specifically focused ambient album. Utterly rich and teeming with life, ASC’s creations here are spellbinding, the type of ambient music that is not intended for passive background listening. Field recordings are flattened and smeared, deep space signals burble under crackling atmospheres, foreboding sequencers blink and bubble in milky starlight, every track dense with highly detailed arrangements that slowly evolve into tactile masses that practically breath. It’s a foundational piece of both the ASC and Silent Season catalogs, issued here as a one-time pressing.

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A much requested vinyl edition of ASC’s seminal 2013 Ambient LP for Silent Season. Remastered and Cut for the vinyl edition.