• Interview: Baths

    July 31, 2014 - By 

    “Selfishness plays a very positive role for me. I have to love it to death or I can’t remain involved with it.” So says twenty-four year old Californian electronic producer Will Wiesenfeld AKA Baths. Having developed a particularly crippling bout of E Coli in 2009 that left him bed-ridden and unable to write music for months, he positively channelled this skirmish with mortality into his second full-length release, last year’s masterfully bleak and heart-wrenchingly beautiful Obsidian. If Nietzsche’s immortal adage “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” rings true, Wiesenfeld’s sophomore effort embodied a distinctly do-or-die spirit. With…

  • Album stream: Geotic – Morning Shore

    July 17, 2014 - By 

    Will Wiesenfeld, the ambient electronic producer more commonly known as Baths, has released a new full-length album under the alias Geotic, entitled Morning Shore. The producer has been treating us to impossibly pretty electronic music since 2010, and his second release, 2013’s Obsidian received widespread critical acclaim. With this more recent project, the relaxing loop-based songs are more natural and revolve around acoustic guitar, in the style of producers such as Bibio and Tycho. Morning Shore is the first in a line of planned releases entitled Eon Isle, each to be based around a single instrument, and after hearing this first…