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Spiritual World is a small Toronto label releasing some of the most quietly absorbing records in recent memory. Its catalog moves between dub, ambient, downtempo, and experimental soul, but it isn’t driven by genre. Rather, their recordings value feel over form, often captured live in a single room, with the tape running and the players listening more than they speak.

Most of it comes from Studio Z, an inscrutable home studio somewhere in Toronto. It’s not a commercial space or a destination with lore. It’s where producer and Spiritual World connective tissue N1_SOUND records, mixes, and assembles much of the catalog, a practical setup with just enough gear to let the music move at its own pace. Sessions are informal and fast, seemingly guided by a quiet commitment to capturing and releasing sublime moments.

Below are four titles currently available through In Sheep’s Clothing.

T3AL – Bluish Green (LP)

Fifteen years in the background, three days in the studio. That’s the timeline behind Bluish Green, the debut album from T3AL, a family trio composed of the Ball Sisters and N1_SOUND. Recorded at Studio Z in January 2024 with virtually no discussion or preparation, the album captures something fleeting and deeply personal: a record shaped not by design but by the unspoken rhythms shared between siblings and longtime collaborators. It moves slowly, deliberately, without ever announcing where it’s going or insisting on any kind of climax.

Though its ingredients might suggest trip hop — looped drums, hushed vocals, ambient haze, a fondness for negative space — Bluish Green avoids the genre’s theatricality and overwrought melancholy, drifting instead into something softer and stranger. The record unfolds like a family ritual in real time: field recordings, dubbed-out flute lines, distant cicadas, sparse bass guitar that moves on a tectonic rotation of its own, anchoring the session without dominating it. “Frog Legacy,” a slow-blooming instrumental built around the clicked croak of a güiro frog and lapping ocean tones, feels like the center of gravity, while “Flip That Switch” closes the record with crystalline slide-flute and an imagined flock of shoreline birds disappearing into delay.

Pressed to 12-inch and released in a small run, Bluish Green stands as one of Spiritual World’s most quietly immersive offerings. Available now: https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/product/t3al-bluish-green-12/

N1_Sound – People Have a Right to Build (10-inch EP)

A heavyweight dub-and-menace jam, on People Have a Right to Build, N1_SOUND takes Michael Cloud Duguay’s fractured, broken-beat jazz composition and reworks it into a low-slung, heavy-footed dub piece that feels urgent and raw. The A-side centers around a searing vocal from Kingston’s IJAHBAR, whose declarative delivery cuts through the murk with clarity and force. “We see our enemies before they approach us,” he sings, and you know he’s not lying. The production leans into grit and grain, fusing sample-heavy drum programming with heavy-lidded low-end and minimal melodic flourish, drawing inspiration from the mid-’90s WordSound aesthetic while grounding itself firmly in the now.

The B-side version pulls the track inside out, stripping away the vocal and submerging the rhythm under layers of warped echo, blurred percussion and spatial drift. What remains is ghost architecture, a dub mix that feels as if it’s been excavated from tape left buried too long in a humid attic. Released in collaboration with Watch That Ends the Night Records and limited to 100 copies, this one hits hard but lingers soft.

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Y’KNOW – Why Now

Released in late 2024, Why Now marked the first full-length vinyl outing from Y’KNOW, the duo of Bally and N1_SOUND, who debuted digitally in 2023 with a short, self-contained collection of minimal, vocal-led groove sketches. On this eight-track EP, they expand that framework with four vocal cuts on the A-side and four corresponding dubs on the B, nodding to the tradition of classic dub albums while channeling a sound that’s harder to classify — somewhere between synth-pop, minimalist house and the shadowier corners of post-punk. The mood is ambiguous but consistent: restrained, nocturnal, gently propulsive.

“So Close” feels like a dancefloor cut that’s been slowed to half speed, played at 33 instead of 45, every sound stretched slightly past the point of recognition. Handclaps, cowbell and thick reverb gather into something hypnotic. “Treat Me Nice” taps into a more microhouse-influenced register, skittering and spare, with a vocal presence that hovers rather than leads. The record as a whole brings to mind Vocalcity-era Luomo and the earliest Metro Area 12-inches, though the comparison only goes so far. Why Now is less about style than about tension and release, the space between sounds, the warmth of repetition. Limited to 200 copies.

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T3AL – Original Watercolour (LP)

The second full-length from T3AL opens with the woozy title track “Original Watercolour,” a piece so saturated in flanger and soft light it feels like it was painted on glass. Psychedelic but never showy, the track sets the tone for a record that moves through moods rather than genres, borrowing bits of early Massive Attack, Morcheeba and Glass Candy but dragging them through thicker syrup. Once again recorded at Studio Z, the album feels less like a follow-up to Bluish Green than a deepening of its logic. Everything is warm, slightly out of focus, full of intention but empty of pressure.

The group’s frog fixation continues. “Frog Kingdom” revisits the ambience of “Frog Legacy” but surrounds it this time with rhythmic scaffolding, a pulse that gently holds the atmosphere in place. “Locked Into Love” plays like a distant relative of Mtume’s Juicy Fruit, filtered through lo-fi tape and broken drum machines, anchored by a click-clap rhythm that wanders the stereo field. As with most of Spiritual World’s output, Original Watercolour doesn’t demand attention — unless you’re on the dance floor. It earns it, though, by staying in the room.

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