Stream: Beacon, ‘Preserve’

Daiana Feuer on November 16th, 2015

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This February, Brooklyn duo Beacon return with their second album, “Escapements,” on Matthew Dear’s label Ghostly International, the follow-up to 2013’s “The Ways We Separate.” Where that one explored space, “Escapements” involves the concept of time. An escapement is a time-keeping regulator in clock mechanics. Vocalist Thomas Mullarney explains, “Friction and changes in amplitude over time mean every escapement, no matter how well crafted, will lose its accuracy and effectively slow down time via its own decay.” And so he and bandmate Jacob Gossett explored studio tricks and recording techniques that allowed discovery and time manipulation, while balancing the ticking clock of electronic precision with synths and melodies that could drift naturally, as evidenced in this first single, “Preserve.” The guys recorded at Beacon’s Brooklyn home studio and Gary’s Electric over a nine-month period, bringing in Tycho drummer Rory O’Conner to perform and Al Carlson to mix. “I hope this record proves our restlessness and shows that we really aren’t content to have only one approach to creating music,” says Mullarney. “Every part of our process is linked to discovery.”

|||Stream: “Preserve”