I’ve been sitting with Xiexie for a few days now. I think that perhaps you may have been exhausted at some point with the sheer volume of Celer releases. The enormity of recordings would do that. I likened it somehow to an artist that is showing everyone the process and then giving everyone a chance to hear it all. Every last bit of it. If there were, say, 5 Celer releases officially released (you decide which 5 are the best) and then it came out that there were 100 more sitting on the shelf, deemed unworthy by Will for human consumption, it would then equate into salivation, bitterness and longing to at least hear what was on ALL of those tapes. Of course, this isn’t necessary, as it is all there for you to consume, enjoy and critique.

The point here is that Xiexie may be the culmination of those digital-only sketches, the limited cassettes, experimental collaborations, the one-off compositions distilled down to an absolutely brilliant display of what Will Long is capable of composing and recording. An essential release in no less than 3 format options (2 x cassette, 2xCD, 2xLP’s). If you’re going to own one Celer release, or need to get reacquainted with Celer’s tape loop ambient mastery, this is the one.