With Clancy and for Clancy
“It sounds like life” is an ambient album you listen to the way you listen to a landscape.
The tracks feel like footnotes to inner lives: brief, reflective, open-ended. Soft synths and slow-moving drones breathe beneath field recordings of Georgian birds, their calls flickering in and out like passing thoughts. These natural moments ground the album, giving it a sense of place even as it remains deliberately unanchored.
Fragments from ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Northern Exposure’ surface like half-remembered conversations overheard late at night—never intrusive, never explanatory. They carry a familiar warmth and strangeness, evoking small towns, liminal spaces, and the gentle absurdity of everyday existence. Rather than nostalgia for its own sake, these samples function as emotional shorthand: reminders of wonder, unease, and connection.
Unhurried and deeply atmospheric, ‘It sounds like life’ isn’t meant to be followed so much as inhabited. It plays like weather, like thought, like life itself – unfolding quietly, meaningfully, and just out of reach.
This description itself was written by an AI, a quiet reflection on the album’s central question: what is real when memory, media, nature, and machine perception overlap? Just as the music blurs birdsong with television echoes and poetry with atmosphere, reality seen with your own eyes with worlds created in your mind while watching these artificial worlds, samples combined with parts played on real instruments, the text mirrors a reality where authorship, meaning, and feeling are increasingly shared between humans and systems they’ve created.
Clancy: idea, voice, field recordings, photos
DustCats: music