v/a- SEARCHLIGHT MOONBEAM 2LP soundtrack STRANDED offers the inside story

STRANDED offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints

Austin Texas duo composed of Led Er Est's Sam De La Rosa and Dark Entries artist Bill Converse

are making guitar music that explores the boundaries of everyday life with calm levity

Magaletti leads the build-up with another jazzy shuffle to support seething

--Todd Killings

v/a- SEARCHLIGHT MOONBEAM 2LP soundtrack STRANDED offers the inside storyThe latest compilation from Time Is Away, creators of the cult NTS Radio show known for its fugitive sounds and archival reveries. Following Ballads (A Colourful Storm, 2022), its an autumnal dreamscape intimate, unresolved, and quietly transportive. Resonances emerge between Maher Shalal Hash Baz affiliates Kasumi Trio, Taiwanese composer Chen Ming Changs heartbroken Rainwater (from Hou Hsiao Hsiens Dust In The Wind), and the solitary improvisations