Tracklist:

Storm Mother

Solo

Lo-Theory

Coco Melon

Return to Yourself

Medi

Poly Ballad

Peak Flow

Embers

Spirit Owl

Open Mode

Subtle Thoughts

2022 Ambient beauty repressed on Splattered Colour Vinyl… recommended!

Neil McDonald’s love of the outdoors is a constant feature in his music, hence his Lord Of The Isles moniker, a direct reference to the Highlands and islands of his native Scotland.

His vivid, effervescent and blissfully cinematic sound paints a soundtrack to unmade films, building imaginary worlds inspired by his childhood passion for science fiction. It is therefore no coincidence that the closing track ‘Subtle Thoughts’ samples the inimitable voice of Carl Sagan… an album of sumptuous melancholic electronica that, like all his previous works, avoids being pigeonholed. In it we find ambient and IDM, but also breaks and down-tempo 4×4 beats with deep ruminations, and even passages akin to new age and Balearic.