Celestial - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

Ecstatic presents I Can Hear The Grass Grow, the transportive new album from Mancunian duo Celestial. Expanding on the bucolic dreamstates of their previous work, this latest release unfurls like dawn mist over dewy fields, steeped in fragile fingerpicking guitar aching with hushed intimacy.

Where Listen to the Sky traced the heavens, I Can Hear The Grass Grow sinks into the earth—its organic, fungal textures blossoming in layers of acoustic and electric guitar, droning harmoniums, and shimmering synth washes. The album’s hymnal atmosphere evokes a quiet devotion to the natural world, each track a meditation on unseen currents and lysergic reveries carried on the breeze, like the hum of insects at dusk or the slow stretch of ivy over stone.

Mermaid Boulevard pairs Celestial with labelmate Romance, weaving crystalline guitar figures through a haze of tape-worn ambience and gently pulsing electronics, like sunlight filtering through leaves. Song For The Rainy Season drifts in a slow-motion waltz of reverberant strings and plangent melodies, evoking the lull of wind through wild grass, while Skylark conjures a spectral chorus of layered harmonics and yearning guitar melodies dissolving into radiant oblivion.
A love letter to the in-between spaces, I Can Hear The Grass Grow is a record of quiet wonder—an invitation to pause, listen, and lose yourself in its tender, translucent glow, where nature breathes through every note.