Beacon
Like fellow duos Telefon Tel Aviv and Junior Boys before them, Beacon creatively incorporate elements of contemporary R&B and underground club music while emphasizing songwriting as much as sound design. Across a handful of EPs and the succinct albums The Ways We Separate (2013), Escapements (2016), and Gravity Pairs (2018), Beacon were one of the most consistent artists on the Ghostly International label in the 2010s. Independent since then, they've steadily refined their predominantly downtempo and tender approach with the full-length Along the Lethe among their later releases.
Beacon consists of producer Jacob Gossett and vocalist/lyricist Thomas Mullarney III. The two met at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and, in April 2011, released a pair of single tracks as free downloads on their Bandcamp page. They made their official debut that November with No Body, a hushed but deeply rhythmic four-track EP released through the Ghostly International-supported Moodgadget label. Throughout the following year, the duo toured the U.S., opening for the likes of Gold Panda, Tycho, and Oneohtrix Point Never. Gossett and Mullarney landed on Ghostly International proper in October 2012 with the For Now EP, and their hushed first album, The Ways We Separate, followed four months later. During 2014, they remixed Tycho's "See" and toward year's end issued L1. Their third proper EP, L1 featured some relatively active moments that presaged the faster tempos and more physical sounds heard on second album Escapements, issued in February 2016. Continued touring with Tycho -- with Mullarney joining the band as vocalist -- led to a re-recording of "See," this time credited to Tycho "feat. Beacon." That, as well as a new Beacon single, "Marion," led to Gravity Pairs, Gossett and Mullarney's third album, in November 2018.
At the turn of the decade, Beacon released a piano-based cover of Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation" and left Ghostly to launch Apparent Movement with "Feel Something" later that year. An intermediary single for another label, Best Of, arrived the next year. In 2022, the duo turned Madness' "Our House" into a spare ballad, and that September issued Along the Lethe, which was written during the COVID-19 lockdown. Former Ghostly labelmate Matthew Dear joined them on "Mile a Minute," while another song on the LP, "Ostrich," featured saxophone swirls from Colin Stetson.
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Along the Lethe
Electronic - Released by Apparent Movement on 9 Sep 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Escapements
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 5 Feb 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Ways We Separate
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 29 Apr 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gravity Pairs
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ghostly International on 2 Nov 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Along the Lethe (Deluxe Edition)
Electronic - Released by Apparent Movement on 13 Oct 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
For Now
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 2 Oct 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Feel Something (Lake Turner Remix)
Electronic - Released by Apparent Movement on 10 Mar 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Marion (Craig Williams Remix)
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 7 Jul 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Feel Something (Complete)
Electronic - Released by Apparent Movement on 27 May 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wave of Mutilation
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ghostly International on 10 Jan 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Escapements Remixes I
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 23 Sep 2016
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Escapements Remixes II
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 23 Sep 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pay My Debts
Electronic - Released by Apparent Movement on 10 Aug 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pay My Debts (Kölsch Remix)
Techno - Released by Apparent Movement on 30 Aug 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Be My Organ (CRi Remix)
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 1 Aug 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Preserve Remix
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 11 Dec 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
On Ice
Alternative & Indie - Released by Ghostly International on 11 Oct 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gravity Pairs Remixes
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 13 Sep 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Until Next Time (Lycoriscoris Remix)
Techno - Released by Apparent Movement on 21 Jul 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo