Audiopile Review: This is actually 2024 release that we caught up to a bit late, but rectifying the oversight now. Issued last year on Levain, one segment of the growing circle of labels emanating from the crucial Danish Safe Distribution, Goesun reps their pleasingly warm aesthetic perfectly with a long player that is aimed more toward the sky than it is the dancefloor, bucking the general trend of Safe. Linking back to the subdued style of subdued of acts like Arovane, Loscil and Biosphere, the unfussy and measured tones of More Than You Know bring all the puffed ambiance, glassy dub techno and smoothed out glitch that were synonymous with the patient brand of IDM that was de rigueur at turn of the century. Album opener “Aid” takes almost ten minutes to unfold, it’s trickling Autechre-ian tones and submerged melodies slowly collate into a majestically spinning music box of glitchy sublimity. Elsewhere, Goesun gets smeary with the wavering tones and dripping signals of “Good Enough”, pushing up the intensity on “Profund Amplification” with stuttering, high pitched rhythms that collide with liquid ambiance. It’s the type of patient, slow-building electronic music geared toward proper headphone listening that has gone out of fashion as of late. Who has the time, after all? Goesun urges us to claw that time back.

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Goesun’s More Than You Know on Levain Denmark is a stunning ambient/drone album that envelops the listener in its delicate soundscapes and thoughtful compositions.