​New York sound artist Nickolas Mohanna is the real Sound of the City. The noises of our rainy days, planes flying overhead or whatever's happening on Mott Street are dutifully documented on his digital recorder, then stretched out and distended (via synth and guitar) into majestic drone worlds. The enveloping Oneohtrix Point Nostrand Avenue gush of his second album, Reflectors (out now via Preservation, limited to 300 copies), takes the atmospheres we experience every day and transmutes them into a glorious, enhanced, superatmosphere appropriate for the type of New York that Snake Plissken would escape from. The album's final track, "Particles," ultimately turns a plane taking off from La Guardia into a gorgeous, darkly hued, skipping, fractal zone-out.

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