I hate the smell of flavored cigars. To me, it's a mixture of wax and deodorant with most of them, but I can't withhold the exquisiteness of wrapping your lips on those tasty mugs. It makes the whole thing unbearably irresistible. The smell is still completely out of place, but damping your lips with some sweetness before inhaling some health damaging smoke turns the process into a thing of pros and cons in equal amounts. It's a love-it-as-well-as-hate-it matter even though it comes from the drawer where all irrelevant objects are kept.
All things are a version of other things, at times of things that would never be put together if it wasn't in a metaphorical context. Apart from that they are simultaneously smaller and bigger, worse and better, older and newer than something else. It's a mere time and space phenomenon. Have you ever looked through the window of your home to see a plane flying? Well, that plane encapsulates a different reality from yours. The people in it travel to another space and think of time as a very active element of reality while only having to sit down and wait until enough of it passes to get them where they are heading. While for one traveler the trip will end in 3 hours, for another it may end after two days. When they are in the plane, they live with the illusion that they will be traveling for the same amount of time. But when they get out of the airport, one will take a cab to his home and another one will probably have to get on a train to get him to some distant city.
Leon Lowman's 'Liquid Diamonds' is about all these things. It may sound bad, but make you want to dance. It may sound good, but not make you want to dance. It can as well sound bad and not make you dance or sound good and make you want to dance. It leaves it up to you. It is elevator music that won't ever be played in an elevator. It is solid, yet liquid. When something is hard to be labeled as good or bad, it either goes into the love-it-as-well-as-hate-it drawer (in cases where the owner of the drawer is at peace with both, the pros and cons). 'Liquid Diamonds' is a thing of acceptance because no matter how and where you put it, it will find its place on a thin line between opposites with every single attempt.
While in the early 80's, Lowman's releases went slightly unnoticed, time made it so that they became deeply dug for in the recent years. It definitely wasn't the rise of genres such as ecco jam and vaporwave that made Lowman's previous albums 'Syntheseas' and 'Sound Horizon', as well as 'Liquid Diamonds' (with all tracks recorded between '78 and '81), finally fit somewhere, but the theory of emergence which stands behind the arrival of vaporwave and Lowman's style being sought after.
Tracklist:
1. Bumpin' On Sunset2. Morning Song
3. Open
4. Friends
5. Narrow River
6. The Want
7. Fluorescent Funk
8. Back To The Grasslands
9. Liquid Diamonds
10. Forrest Of Fear
11. Andrea
12. Listen