Release Date: 2013-11-04 Label: Thoughtless Music Catalog # TLM086
It's been four long years since Noah Pred's last album, Blind Alignments, was released here on Thoughtless. Traversing countless highs and lows during his time spent working on the new record, the result breaks new ground for Pred. Noah's well-honed production techniques remain as attentively executed as ever, with a casual intricacy woven throughout. And yet Third Culture remains anything but a cold affair, as Pred brings a human touch to the proceedings with four guest vocalists: Bristol's Anne Gallien, fellow Berliner Deepchild, Brooklynite Marc Deon, and Toronto's Rosina all deliver distinctive performances. There's no question that over the past four years, Pred's music has evolved as much as he himself has matured. Throughout the story Third Culture tells, Pred's attention to detail and applied ethic of metaphysical encoding hint at the merging of science and art discussed in John Brockman's influential eponymous book. Drawing on the process philosophy championed by his late father, Third Culture seeks to put the listener in direct contact with the expansive yet ever-fleeting, on flowing moment that intertwines us all...
