Amulets is the solo project of Portland-based audio and visual artist Randall Taylor. Amulets employs handmade cassette tape loops and live processed guitar loops to create live, lush soundscapes and immersive drones. Through the recontextualisation of cassettes, sampling, field recording, and looping, these long-form compositions blur the genres of ambient, drone, noise, and electronic music. Amulets has steadily built a catalog defined by tactile intimacy and patient exploration. Taylor has performed across the U.S at numerous festivals and opened for such acts as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, This Will Destroy You, Covet, Midwife, and Efrim Manuel Manuck (of Godspeed You Black Emperor) to name a few. Taylor was also published in the Kim Bjorn book series “Pedal Crush” as an artist and inspirational creator.
Amulets’ new album 'Rema(i)nders' marks his debut on Pelagic Records, a fitting home for a record that thrives in the liminal space between heaviness and fragility. Deeply immersive, the album navigates the dreamy boundaries between the tangible and the ethereal, where sound behaves as memory itself: unstable, layered, and quietly transformative. Known for his ability to weave soundscapes that evoke powerful emotions with minimalistic instrumentation, Taylor’s newest project is a masterful exploration of mood, atmosphere, and texture.
This spirit of experimentation mirrors the album itself. Where soundscapes are curious, unafraid, and open to transformation. 'Rema(i)nders' is not an album that demands attention, it earns it slowly through patience and immersion. It asks the listener to sit with ambiguity, to find beauty in erosion, and to recognize how sound, like memory, can both fade and persist at once. In a world increasingly defined by immediacy and excess, Amulets offers a quiet dynamism that is reflective and enduring.
LP vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Paths Of Acceptance
2. Former Shells
3. Coiled (ft. Patrick Shiroishi)
Side B:
4. Black Sheep
5. Slow Motion Somnia
6. Remain Remind
