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Gary Caruths Sad City project has progressively attracted ever more praise, not least since his Shapes In Formation album landed last year. Straddling purest ambient and abstract rhythmical electronica with a unique approach that is all his own, Caruth is returning to Emotional Rescue with a 10inch that revisits three of the tracks from Shapes In Formation and magnifies them as the longer form versions they originally were. Music Removed was a particularly strong track on the album, and this new extended version lets the pneumatic percussion and soulful vocal croon bleed together in the most captivating of ways. Patterns sounds even more elegant in its pagan ambient finery with a longer run time, and Vexillations flits between poised static and cascading chimes with the deft touch that has come to define the Sad City sound.