Minotaur Shock announces album no 10 It All Levels Out on Bytes

His most personal and reflective album yet and arguably his strongest, the closest to a pure ambient record he has made and a hopeful meditation on getting older. The nine tracks ebb and flow perfectly, with echoes of the environmental music of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Surround; Steve Reich’s minimalist masterpiece Six Marimbas; the murky ambience of West Mineral Limited; the fluid new age vibes of Visible Cloaks; the melodic ambient of Global Communication and SAW II-era Aphex; and even the meditative post-rock of Bark Psychosis.

“I think there’s a point that you get to in life where you finally get to know yourself,” explains Edwards. “It doesn’t mean that you stop worrying and overthinking, but you kind of don’t care as much. It’s easier to work out what’s important — or maybe it’s just easier to know what isn’t.” It All Levels Out, the title track and album opener, which is available to stream everywhere today, with its pensive piano loops that cede to forceful chords and playful melodies, is about “that realisation, the relief it brings, and the nagging feeling that you probably wasted a shitload of time caring about and chasing things that didn’t really matter.”