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Cruel Optimism
Lawrence English
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Release Date
March 10, 2017
Duration
38:48
Genre
Electronic
,
Avant-Garde
Styles
Ambient
,
Dark Ambient
,
Noise
Recording Location
EMS Studios
Plutonium Studios
Thor's House
Discography Timeline
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Ghost Towns
(2007)
For Varying Degrees of Winter
(2007)
Kiri no Oto
(2008)
It's Up to Us To Live
(2009)
HB
(2009)
A Colour for Autumn
(2009)
A Path Less Traveled
(2010)
The Peregrine
(2011)
For / Not For John Cage
(2012)
Wilderness of Mirrors
(2014)
Viento
(2015)
Cruel Optimism
(2017)
Selva Oscura
(2018)
Immediate Horizon
(2018)
Eternal Stalker
(2022)
Colours of Air
(2023)
Chthonic
(2023)
The Shell That Speaks the Sea
(2023)
Tropic of Capricorn
(2023)
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