The experimental ambient duo Visible Cloaks have announced Paradessence, their first studio album in nine years. Their third record is out May 22 via RVNG Intl. Today, the ground also shared the music video for their leading single, "Disque", which features synthetic woodwind arrangements by glitch pop artist Motion Graphics.

"Disque"comes with a music video made in collaboration with Grade Eterna, a UK-based photogrammetrist who 3D scanned the plants of a London greenhouse to compose the virtual images seen.

Watch/listen to the new single below:

Paradessence comes from a portmanteau of the words "paradoxical" and "essence," first coined by author Alex Shankar, who used it to describe the act of satisfying multiple contradictory desires. Visible Cloaks member Spencer Doran aims to apply the philosophy to the duo's ambient music. "Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments," he says, "we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux.”

Many frequent collaborators with the duo feature on the new record. Ambient pioneers Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, who collaborated with Visible Cloaks on the 2019 record serenitatem, appear on the interlinked tracks "Shapes" and "Thinking". The Componium Ensemble — Doran's experimental chamber music project/self-playing music software program — provides the music for the final song, "System". Motion Graphics not only featured on "Disques" but also co-mixed the album.

Paradessence will be the first full-length studio album from Visible Cloaks since 2017's Reassemblage. Between the two records, the ambient duo mixed the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, and they released the official soundtrack for the 2023 video game SEASON: A letter to the future.

Paradessence is out May 22. Pre-order here. Official tracklist:

1. Apsis
2. Skylight
3. Disque (feat. Motion Graphics)
4. Balloon
5. Slippage
6. Telescoping
7. Shapes (feat. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
8. Thinking (feat. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
9. Zinna
10. Swirl
11. Steel
12. Intarsia (feat. Ioana Șelaru)
13. Capgras
14. System (feat. Componium Ensemble)