{"product_id":"beautiful-illusions-black-lp","title":"Beautiful Illusions [Black LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York painter and musician exploratory industrialist Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeautiful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllusions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass.” Although he ultimately chose to wreath the majority of the tracks with hushed, poetic vocals, his original muse still resonates. These are certainly songs of shadow play and vaulted skies, the quiet grandeur of dusk deepening on the horizon. Lundvall characterizes the lyrical subject matter, too, in ways both specific and surreal, exploring “the doubts, the anxieties and even the bleak fantasies the mind spirals into during moments of isolation, separation and distance.” Tricks of the eye, mind, and ear, magnified by silence and the looming long winter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShivering pulses and muted bass lines tread the twilight while icicle synths and wiry guitar map the melody until the voice enters, narrating oblique moods of essence and absence, tenderness and truth. Glimpses of dark humor flicker in the wordplay but the greater sonic landscape is one of falling leaves and failing light, small gestures rendered as revelation, cloaked in reverb and spatial fog. Lundvall’s mastery of nuance and negative space continues to heighten, whispered brushstrokes of the invisible and the unsaid, what lies beneath and what lies beyond: “behind the shields and false fronts is usually a sadness. The heartbreaking reflections of what might have been.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheir Souls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForever Rain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrowning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlessings Counted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Bluebirds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonely Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Windows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 011586672437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dais\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tor Lundvall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58292962328657,"sku":"563069","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/4018173-2776340.jpg?v=1760747103","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/beautiful-illusions-black-lp","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}