Far Salute vinyl is the debut LP from the Belgian duo on Circuits Records, a label built for music that borrows from trap, witch house, ambient, and noise and then presents it all as deceptively poppy tunes. The description of bass-heavy sound and harrowing vocals that grab you by the throat is not the kind of language associated with music designed for easy or comfortable listening.
Far Salute vinyl: The Sound
Belgium has produced a consistent stream of electronic and darkwave artists working in the space between pop structure and underground production aesthetics, and Far fits into that tradition while clearly drawing from more contemporary reference points. Witch house as a production aesthetic brings a specific kind of slowed and damaged approach to rhythm and texture, and combining that with trap elements and ambient space suggests a duo that is not interested in genre purity but in whatever combination of sounds serves the song.
The deceptively poppy description is key. Music that sounds accessible on first contact but reveals more unsettling elements as it continues is a specific and difficult thing to make well. Pop structure as camouflage for genuinely dark material requires both real commitment to the darkness and real understanding of what makes something catchy, which is a harder balance to maintain than either pole of the spectrum individually.
Circuits Records and the Electronic Underground
Circuits is a label operating in the specialist space for electronic and darkwave music that does not fit neatly into the categories that major distribution handles well. A debut LP on Circuits positions Far in a catalog of artists who share the label’s commitment to music made with conviction rather than market calculation, and the LP format for a bass-heavy electronic record is a meaningful choice: the low end that defines the sound translates better on vinyl than on compressed digital formats.
For collectors focused on Belgian electronic music, darkwave, or the broader witch house and experimental pop space, Salute is worth owning as a debut document from a duo with a specific vision for what they are making. The LP format preserves the bass weight and textural depth that defines the project’s sound across its full runtime. That combination of surface accessibility and genuine darkness underneath is what separates the best electronic music from the music that settles for being merely loud.
