Ambient Sunday with 58918012 – Near Ocean

Ambient Sunday is still in election mode. Committed to dodging National Service were I young enough, here’s the inestimable 58918012 with Near Oceans, a track that’s “unsureness, with a tiny particle of optimism.” And we all need a bit of optimism at times like these.

58918012 is is Yurii Popov from Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. He’s a musician and music blog curator and back here after an eighteen month absence with a new album Probabilities from which Near Ocean is taken.

Near Ocean is a less drone focused track than some previous releases. It’s also more obviously electronic. There’s nothing organic here. This is all about the bleeping and skirls of machines. But it has heart. An aching heart which throbs with the beats through this track. There’s a slow mournful sadness that dominates the track in among the whirrs and machine noise.

58910012 may think there’s a tiny particle of optimism here. Hard to see that. This is elegiac and profound with the continued blooping of sounds. I want there to be hope but this still feels like endings. And not in a good way. Ineffably sad.

Stand with Ukraine.

~ by acidted on May 26, 2024.