Landing

In 1998 the married musicians Aaron Snow and Adrienne Snow launched the ambient drift rock group Landing after first crossing paths at Brigham Young University and settling in Connecticut once their studies ended. Beginning as the duo May Landing, with Adrienne on keyboards and Aaron on guitar, the project later expanded to include drummer/bassist Daron Gardner and guitarist/bassist Dick Baldwin, then multi-instrumentalist Peter Baumann, who is often wrongly identified with the former Tangerine Dream player of identical name. The ensemble immediately began documenting its dark ambient dream pop aesthetic, producing a string of cassette and EP releases highlighted by the 1999 debut EP Centrefuge. Early efforts aligned stylistically with contemporaries Flying Saucer Attack, Bowery Electric, and Windy & Carl, featuring submerged vocals and layers of noisy texture over slow, elongated rhythms.

During 2001 the band issued its first full-length, Circuit, on Music Fellowship, its second album Oceanless through Strange Attractors Audio House, and a split EP with Windy & Carl also on Music Fellowship. Remaining highly productive, Landing followed in 2002 with Seasons on Ba Da Bing along with multiple additional EPs of fresh material. Over the ensuing two years the group placed two albums on the respected indie imprint K Records: Passages Through in 2003 and Sphere in 2004. Returning to Strange Attractors, they delivered Brocade in 2005 and then the limited LP Gravitational IV via Equation Records in 2006. After a period of inactivity the band resurfaced in 2009 with a 7" on Geographic North, which led to a self-titled full-length in 2012.

By that time membership had shifted, with Baldwin departed and multi-instrumentalist John Miller now aboard. Continuing their habit of gathering new music in EP format, Landing released two further EPs after their return: Wave Lair in 2012 and II the following year. After the 2015 EP Body Diffuser on Vast Arc Hues came the full-length Third Sight on El Paraiso in 2016, succeeded soon after by Complekt on These Are Not Records. The Krautrock-influenced Bells in New Towns appeared on El Paraiso in 2018.