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LONDON - WE'RE INTO DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE

It's true there's a lot of lucid new-age improvisation stuff going on right now. But it seems highly probable that none of it is quite as extreme as what Belgium's Dolphins Into the Future are doing. They just run with it.

Dolphins' commander,

Lieven Martens,

shares his name with a book by a lady called Joan Ocean, who took a 20-year spirit quest to commune with real life dolphins in Hawaii. Dolphins Into the Future's new LP, On Seafaring Isolation (which is out on Not Not Fun), is pretty much a soundtrack to Ocean's work. These long ambient tracks are distant bursts of lushness funneled through DIY tape loopery. They share a Skaters-style plastic otherworldliness, and an obsession with naturalistic synths.

Dolphins Into the Future - "Onset Beyond Clouds"

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