Trickpony – 24/7 Heaven

Like a suspended state between wakefulness and sinking under, the music of Trickpony unfolds with a quiet insistence. Already the title 24/7 Heaven describes what carries this album: a continuous dwelling in light-filled sonic spaces that do not create distance but instead envelop and hold the listener. The music feels as if it were borne along by fine veils of mist. Despite its weightlessness, the tracks retain a clear inner orientation. Nothing pushes forward, and yet a palpable pull emerges, binding the individual pieces together.

The album achieves its effect less through escalation than through a calm, steady flow. The heaven Trickpony sketch here is not a place but a state of concentrated stillness. Gently accentuated drums introduce edges that give shape to the hovering soundscape without weighing it down. Especially in moments adjacent to drum’n’bass, the album’s sense of tension becomes apparent: small rhythmic shifts and lightly roughened textures disrupt the smoothness and lend contour to the warm tonal base.

Synth surfaces glide into one another and open up spaces, while the basslines deliberately hold back. They support rather than dominate, moving like currents beneath the surface and generating motion within an overall calm, self-contained sonic image.