"Pondfire", the debut solo album of Blind Cave Salamander’s Paul Beauchamp, is built on memories of this childhood on his grandfather's farm in Muddy Creek, North Carolina. Beauchamp works with broad strokes - sweeping, watery synth textures and ringing drones often form an eerie call and response. There is a certain starry-eyed spookiness to the voices of analogue synths. The pieces are minimal, but they were fleshed out with a cold and metallic palette to give them an otherwordly timbre. The imagery that comes to mind time and time again is of a boy stargazing in a cool forest by a pond, in silence. Recommended to fans of deep ambient and electro-acoustic sounds.