Albums
Kindly
Lillerne Tapes - November 8, 2022
Last heard on "A Scene From A Dream", the soniferous realms of Slowfoam and Neilll meet again in the fully collaborative EP "Kindly". Divided by an ocean with digital waves as only means of exchange, their convergence manifests here the cyber-cloud cracks and weaves into a unique form of sonic world building. Voltaic thorns swirl. Melodies cushion. Things flicker. The vapours reach us, radiations too, this feels personal. With its complex emotional ventures and its unannounced turns and ruptures, "Kindly" is an honest and cheeky investigation of the possibilities of connection. A collaboration that takes us deep... far out, or perhaps inwards, into the intricate meanders of the self. It is a moving yet playful journey across the entangled landscape of the in-between.
~.~*~.~ (Spring)
Self-Released - March 5, 2021
~.~*~.~ (Spring) is a journal of poems, liquid fragments, field recordings, doodles, textures and nostalgia. The album blossomed from a season in quarantine ~ waking up with a balmy fragrant release of salty aromatics, hyacinths climax, and the glistening Adriadic in a pull between lithospherean belonging and isolation. Organic and digital instrumentations hum and banter with a light, earnest escapism. The personal, journal-like songs feature blends of past iphone recordings and new renditions by friends from near and far, including Hoop bandmates Caitlin Payne Roberts & Allyson Foster.
Inflorescence is an ambivalent embodiment of the cyclical nature of home - from belonging to longing, here and there. Home is where you are held. Held by connections to place, space, skin on skin, warm times, fleeting laughter and scent. Held by water, sound, unwavering potentials, imagined futures, olfactory imprint, gratitude. Released, let go, squeezing, transforming.
Scenes From A Dream
Jungle Gym Records - November 30, 2019
“JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Scenes From A Dream", official return of the illustrious slowfoam (Madelyn Byrd). From the breathtaking abstractions of debut "lust + boredom", Byrd pushes even further towards the avant-garde, an artist at the peak of their creative power with a unique and developed voice that is at once timely and timeless. Here whispered synthetic microcosms are meticulously refined with a palate of chamber woodwind flourishes, precision field recordings and heavily processed vocal passages, woven together by the life-flow vignettes of rippling pools and instinctual momentum. From a place of both high art and universal accessibility, JGT38 finds grandiosity in the smallest of gestures... exclusively for JUNGLE GYM.”
Important Bodies
Self-Released - December 6, 2018
A collection of field recordings my partner and I took in Washington and California in the throws of love—created over the span of a week—capturing the whimsical and childlike nature of our early days together.
“conceived, recorded, and assembled over the span of two weeks in November & December 2018, using pretty much just a phone and a laptop... this is one side of a split album made in collaboration with slowfoam. this is a love story.”
-Painter
“JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "lust + boredom," official debut of Seattle's slowfoam. Drifting through the frothy waves we find ourselves with time to reflect on the past few years, and while the memories are quickly fading, the emotional toll weighs heavier than ever. Haunted voices of doubt and insecurity brush up against our ankles, darting in and out of a dark ambient chamber pop score. What began as a simple day at the beach has spiraled to familiar struggle, trying to keep our heads above water while trapped in the slow slow foam. Exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.”
Compilations
Following up 2021’s compilation 'and felt like...', ' ...it wasn't really me' can be seen as the missing part of a diptych, only separated by the passage of time, yet whole in spirit. Again, a familiar company of singular artists showcase remarkable unity in diversity. Similar to its predecessor, a rustic gloom glues everything together into a seamless whole, enabling the collective to transcend each unique contributors' musical voice elegantly.
Kindly
Lillerne Tapes - November 8, 2022Last heard on "A Scene From A Dream", the soniferous realms of Slowfoam and Neilll meet again in the fully collaborative EP "Kindly". Divided by an ocean with digital waves as only means of exchange, their convergence manifests here the cyber-cloud cracks and weaves into a unique form of sonic world building. Voltaic thorns swirl. Melodies cushion. Things flicker. The vapours reach us, radiations too, this feels personal. With its complex emotional ventures and its unannounced turns and ruptures, "Kindly" is an honest and cheeky investigation of the possibilities of connection. A collaboration that takes us deep... far out, or perhaps inwards, into the intricate meanders of the self. It is a moving yet playful journey across the entangled landscape of the in-between.
-Pablo Diserens
~.~*~.~ (Spring)
Self-Released - March 5, 2021~.~*~.~ (Spring) is a journal of poems, liquid fragments, field recordings, doodles, textures and nostalgia. The album blossomed from a season in quarantine ~ waking up with a balmy fragrant release of salty aromatics, hyacinths climax, and the glistening Adriadic in a pull between lithospherean belonging and isolation. Organic and digital instrumentations hum and banter with a light, earnest escapism. The personal, journal-like songs feature blends of past iphone recordings and new renditions by friends from near and far, including Hoop bandmates Caitlin Payne Roberts & Allyson Foster.
Inflorescence
Self-Released - May 1, 2020Inflorescence is an ambivalent embodiment of the cyclical nature of home - from belonging to longing, here and there. Home is where you are held. Held by connections to place, space, skin on skin, warm times, fleeting laughter and scent. Held by water, sound, unwavering potentials, imagined futures, olfactory imprint, gratitude. Released, let go, squeezing, transforming.
Scenes From A Dream
Jungle Gym Records - November 30, 2019
“JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Scenes From A Dream", official return of the illustrious slowfoam (Madelyn Byrd). From the breathtaking abstractions of debut "lust + boredom", Byrd pushes even further towards the avant-garde, an artist at the peak of their creative power with a unique and developed voice that is at once timely and timeless. Here whispered synthetic microcosms are meticulously refined with a palate of chamber woodwind flourishes, precision field recordings and heavily processed vocal passages, woven together by the life-flow vignettes of rippling pools and instinctual momentum. From a place of both high art and universal accessibility, JGT38 finds grandiosity in the smallest of gestures... exclusively for JUNGLE GYM.”
Important Bodies
Self-Released - December 6, 2018
A collection of field recordings my partner and I took in Washington and California in the throws of love—created over the span of a week—capturing the whimsical and childlike nature of our early days together.
“conceived, recorded, and assembled over the span of two weeks in November & December 2018, using pretty much just a phone and a laptop... this is one side of a split album made in collaboration with slowfoam. this is a love story.”
-Painter
Lust + Boredom
Jungle Gym Records - November 30, 2018“JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "lust + boredom," official debut of Seattle's slowfoam. Drifting through the frothy waves we find ourselves with time to reflect on the past few years, and while the memories are quickly fading, the emotional toll weighs heavier than ever. Haunted voices of doubt and insecurity brush up against our ankles, darting in and out of a dark ambient chamber pop score. What began as a simple day at the beach has spiraled to familiar struggle, trying to keep our heads above water while trapped in the slow slow foam. Exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.”
Compilations
Knekelhuis VA: ...it wasn’t really me
December 9, 2022Following up 2021’s compilation 'and felt like...', ' ...it wasn't really me' can be seen as the missing part of a diptych, only separated by the passage of time, yet whole in spirit. Again, a familiar company of singular artists showcase remarkable unity in diversity. Similar to its predecessor, a rustic gloom glues everything together into a seamless whole, enabling the collective to transcend each unique contributors' musical voice elegantly.