Seer
Jonathan Sielaff and Matt Carlson of Golden Retriever look toward the cosmic and the karmic, favoring set-it-and-forget-it synth jams that seem ripped from 1970s Germany; they’re scientific and mechanical in their construction, but they still imbue their work with emotion.
Each number on the Portland duo’s second album for Thrill Jockey becomes a different kind of sunset.
Golden Retriever is the uncommon duo of modular synthesizer player and keyboardist Matt Carlson and bass clarinet player Jonathan Sielaff.
Seer is the duo's sophomore effort for the Thrill Jockey imprint, following a handful of ultra-limited releases for micro-labels like Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's Root Strata and Burlington, Vermont's NNA Tapes.