***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. For the first time in almost 20 years, Windy & Carl’s second album for kranky will be available on the vinyl format once again. The fourth album from Michigan’s premier space duo, again delivers their shimmering trademark wall of sound, beautiful vocalization, and delicate songcraft. Six sweet and easy new tracks recorded in their home studio in Dearborn, that drift and dream with layered guitars, keyboards, bass and a love-arsenal of delicious effects and distortion. “These two won’t be happy until they find a combination of sounds that encompasses all feeling, at which point they will then stretch that chord to the vanishing point.” —Pitchfork “Perhaps it’s a prayer, perhaps a blessing, perhaps a poem full of questions—it hardly matters. Humble, moving, and brilliant.” —All Music “The Windy & Carl listening experience is akin to the period of peace when one is about to succumb to slumbering; the body is hypnotized yet the mind becomes more and more lucid.” —Tape Op “There is an airy shaft of light that extends straight through these six extended pieces, offsetting the density of sound with a breezy loveliness that’s almost impossible to articulate, towering on a floating sea of mesmerising, sub-level sounds.” —Boomkat “Genre descriptions such as ‘ambient guitar soundscape’, ‘wall of sound’ and ‘drone’ fail miserably to capture the astonishing, magical emotional beauty of their pieces.” —Cyclic Defrost t
LP $22.00
05/31/2024
CD $13.50
03/27/2001
Legendary Dearborn duo Windy & Carl have been crafting inner space electric guitar and bass vistas for nearly three decades now, but their latest feels as vital and vaporous as any peak opus in their vast catalog. Written and recorded across six years, the songs swirl between shoegaze minimalism and stargaze drift, over which Windy Weber whispers veiled poetic narratives of transformation, isolation, and escape.Allegiance And Conviction is their first album since 2012’s We Will Always Be. The six compositions are something of outlier in their catalog, shorter in nature than most on their previous releases. All of the tracks are saturated with Carl Hultgren’s signature guitar work, intimate constructions of murmurs, drones and his trademark layered filigree, gently amassed into alternately lighter and heavier than air atmospheres.Despite being their first full-length in more than half a decade, the album fully belongs to the bewitching galaxy of sound Windy & Carl innovated and within which they remain the sole occupants: music of thresholds and peripheries and eternities. Allegiance And Conviction is the multifaceted, contemporary take on their sound.
LP $19.00
03/27/2020
CD $16.00
03/27/2020
***The first new recordings from the amazing WINDY & CARL in more than three years. Eight stellar new tracks to aid your dreams. Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork. (STREET DATE - 2/14/2012)
CD $16.00
02/14/2012
2XLP $24.00
02/14/2012
***Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. The ten songs that form the new WINDY & CARL album are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger and longing, to warmth, admiration and joy. Started in early 2007 and finished in the spring of 2008 in the midst of some sudden inspiration, these songs are some of the best Windy & Carl have to offer, and a new mark in their always developing sound. The opening track addresses the denial of trouble at home, while the title of “La Douleur” (the war, named after the Marguarite Duras book) is self explanatory. The touching words of “My Love,” a song about the renewal of faith and hope, flows on to the genuine sentiment of “Forever.” The title of the closing track notes the idea that no matter how near or far two lovers are, they still exist on the same plane. This fall, Windy & Carl will have been together for 19 years. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, and trouble in any paradise, the highs and the lows, the reality of time and depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long. Long time fans will hear similarities to earlier works, but anyone who listens to Songs For The Broken Hearted will no doubt find emotions they can respond to and identify with. A collection of love...
CD $16.00
10/13/2008
***A brand new double-CDEP from Dearborn, Michigan space/drone duo WINDY & CARL. Dream House is the duo’s first new material in five years, and consists of two evolving, straight ahead pieces with sustained melodic ideas and singular musical gestures. Dedications to Flea features gentle tributes to a departed canine friend.
CD $14.00
11/07/2005
***Who among us can say that they are immune to the shifting soft dreaminumb of Windy & Carl's hypnotic lullabyes? Those who might answer yay, enter now into submission. The third full length album from these Michigan space twirlers soars to new heights and delves into darker realms, with astonishing layers-upon-layers of guitar drones and unsettling, blurred melodies. An expanded atmosphere stretched to the latest limits.
CD $16.00
04/24/1998