Winter North Atlantic

Alternative / Acoustic / Electronica

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Billboard

All the Winter North Atlantic recordings have been written and produced by Ed Carter, with various others contributing at different times. This has included a range of people involved in recordings and live shows: Jia Xie, Jon Willis, Gemma Mather, Jake Harries, Paul Sleaze, John Ashton, Mark Armstrong, Animat, John Cosyne, Juliun c90, Johleen Jeffs...

The result: a melodic collision of elderly synths and warped acoustics.

Currently based in Sheffield, UK, the second WNA album is nearing completion (titled 'The Uncanny Valley'), with new collaborations and remixes in the pipeline, building on recent work with the likes of Tunng, Bracken and the Gentleman Losers.

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Reviews:

The Wire:
"[Load Line] is packed with duvet-snug melodies. This is abstract electro pop sculpted as a space for reminiscing, the beats and layers a comfortable bed of memories. An album for headphone escapism. Like Boards of Canada, the melodies have an abstract, dislocated sadness that slowly seduce you with their meandering grace...One imagines Ed Carter holed up in a cosy shack, reminiscing about old chillout albums with his synths and samples in a MIDI'd up conversation. But what these slow, elegaic melodies really mean to him always remains tantalisingly unstated.

The Milk Factory:
"[Mercator]... is gently cinematic and conveys pastoral mental imagery of fields in bloom and pristine blue skies as acoustic guitars, laidback grooves and found sounds cross paths. Carter sculpts intricate beat formations and adorns them with breezy melodic structures, underlined with discreet electronic touches, revealing a true passion for proper musical themes. Carter takes time to fully develop his compositions and explore variations on melodies and soundscapes, resulting in this EP feeling at once fresh and accomplished. Nothing is left to chance here. The man articulate his sound sources with great care, patiently building his tracks until they stand alone. The result is an impressively mature and skillful collection..."

PopMatters.com
"The second release by Sheffield, UK's Ed Carter is named after a controversial 16th century mapmaker. That should give you an idea of the intellectual, precise post-rock instrumentals within. "Transport" is nicely reminiscent of Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas work"