Auscultation

IV

100% Silk

LP $20.25

06/05/2026 840526505791

SILK 157

MP3 $7.99

06/05/2026 840526505791

SILK 157

FLAC $8.99

06/05/2026 840526505791

SILK 157

After six years of purgatorial sway, Joel Shanahan’s Auscultation project returns with a fourth full-length of dazzling, convex electronics: IV. His signature production touches have only heightened in the interim: iridescent synths; dexterous bass; slinky networks of pads and percussion; regal, rolling fog. Icy bangers of isolation and beauty crafted over long Pacific Northwest winters of endless rain.

The album evolved fitfully, polished and shelved between bursts of inspiration and malaise. This push and pull gives the music a manic, mirror ball, mood-swing movement, tilting between reverie and regret and sweaty abandon. Seven songs of memory and mirrors, haunted by shadows of the past but dreaming of futures still liquid, and unions yet to come.

Mastered by Alex Nagle.

Design by Britt Brown.