Systems/Layers
Details
LP / Format
Quarterstick / Label
Chamber Music, Modern Classical, Post-Minimalism
Field Recordings
, Minimalism
, Ambient
, Post-Rock
/ GenreFull Credits
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Critic Reviews
80
Like David Byrne's underrated orchestral epic The Forest or Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi, Systems/Layers is cerebral and human, transporting you without insulting your intelligence.
10y
80
Rachel's albums are consistently greater than the sum of their parts.
10y
80
Rachel's create classical music for people who listen to bands like Boards Of Canada.
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1y
80
A modern soundtrack for city life--an aural survival pack that pulls out moments of delicate beauty from all the shit and cacophony.
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1y
80
A meditation on modern urban life that lets the city shine with mystery, menace and grace.
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1y
79
It's a brilliant ambient musical experience-- you can tune it out if you choose and it'll still enhance your surroundings, or you can engage yourself fully and allow it to positively hypnotize you.
10y
70
Mostly, familiarly sombre patterns of piano and string quartet dominate this lovely album.
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1y
This album feels like: you go to a theatre, sit on the stalls and watch the performance. You leave the stalls, and riding the car you feel that the horizont seems to take the shape of the opera itself
A Wonderful ambient and modern classical record.
An engaging and quant record that doesn't try to make itself too sparse or overly fancy. It's quiet moments, it's string sections and muffled sampled vocals play like an old vintage film from a time period we'll never live.
Fav tracks: Esperanza, Expect delays, Air conditioning/ closed feeling
![Borodin Quartet - String Quartets 1-13 [Remastered]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/200x0/album/295305-string-quartets-1-13.jpg)
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Track List
| 1 | Moscow Is in the Telephone 3:58 | |
| 2 | Water From the Same Source 6:18 | |
| 3 | Systems / Layers 3:10 | |
| 4 | Expect Delays 3:56 | |
| 5 | Arterial 1:45 | |
| 6 | Even / Odd 3:13 | |
| 7 | Wouldn't Live Anywhere Else 2:47 | |
| 8 | Esperanza 5:31 | |
| 9 | Packet Switching 1:09 | |
| 10 | Where_Have_All_My_Files_Gone? 2:48 | |
| 11 | Reflective Surfaces 2:00 | |
| 12 | Unclear Channel 2:47 | |
| 13 | Last Things Last 3:32 | |
| 14 | Anytime Soon 2:18 | |
| 15 | Air Conditioning/A Closed Feeling 3:38 | |
| 16 | Singing Bridge 2:13 | |
| 17 | And Keep Smiling 2:38 | |
| 18 | 4 or 5 Trees 6:04 | |
| 19 | NY Snow Globe 2:28 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 2 minutes
