Coatshek - Sound Bath (Vinyl LP , Limited Edition, 6 Track Album 22 Aug 2025)

 Format:     Black Vinyl LP 
 
 Edition:     Limited Edition, 6 Track Album, Indie Exclusive 
  
 Number of Tracks:     7 
  
   Release Date:     22 Aug - 2025   
  
   Record Label:     Dark Entries   
   
   Genre:     Electronic - Ambient   
   
   Country of Origin:     United States   
  
   Catalogue:     DE349LP   
  
   EAN:     0794811516026 / B0FNG3XBLH   
  
   Tracklisting:     1 - Softest | 2 - Slipping | 3 - The Feelings 05:03 | 4 - Triple Virgo | 5 - Labyrinth | 6 - Eternal Lovers | 7 - Sound Bath (Mixed)   
  
   Release Notes:     Dark Entries returns to the steam room with Coatshek's Sound Bath. For their SoundBaths series, now-defunct poppers brand Double Scorpio commissioned artists to make mixes for an imaginary queer bathhouse. When asked to contribute, San Francisco-based artist Coatshek aka Sheki Cicelsky took the opportunity to create original compositions. The resulting album, Sound Bath, serves as a masterclass in slow and sultry ambient techno. Taking inspiration from Pink Floyd, Manuel Gottsching's E2-E4, and his friends DJ mixes (particularly Nick Moss and Matthew Paul's for "Por Detroit"), Coatshek landed on 107 bpm as the optimal speed for sauna sex. With just a few synths, his Telecaster, and "lots of delays, reverb, and weed," he sculpted stunning cuts like the effortlessly grooving "Softest" and the psych-laced "Triple Virgo." The cover for Sound Bath was designed by Coatshek's fiance Nate Sprecher, and features photographs by Luke Kraman taken at The Ever Afters campout. The album also includes an insert featuring the Double Scorpio SoundBaths series artwork by Blake Wright. Equally hypnogogic and sexually supercharged, Sound Bath situates the bathhouse as a liminal dreamspace of unbounded erotic potentiality.