Visible Cloaks Return With New Album Paradessence

They’ve also shared a video for a new song with Motion Graphics NewsVisible Cloaks Return With New Album ParadessenceThey’ve also shared a video for a new song with Motion GraphicsBy Hattie LindertFebruary 17, 2026Visible Cloaks, photo by Jonathan SielaffSave StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyVisible Cloaks are back with their first full-length album in nine years. The Portland-based ambient duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile will release Paradessence on May 22 via RVNG Intl. They’ve also shared a lead single, “Disque,” which features Motion Graphics playing synthetic woodwinds. Check out a music video for that below.We last heard from Visible Cloaks in 2019, when they shared serenitatem, a collaborative album with ambient artists Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano. Doran and Carlile released their last solo LP, Reassemblage, in 2017, and followed it up with a mini-LP, Lex, the same year. In 2019, Doran also curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990.Paradessence draws its title from a portmanteau of “paradoxical” and “essence,” coined by author Alex Shakar. Per Visible Cloaks, the word embodies the oppositional-but-coexisting concepts they’re trying to explore with the new album. “Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux,” Doran shared in a press statement.Revisit Philip Sherburne’s 2017 profile Big in Japan: Visible Cloaks and the Power of Cultural Exchange.Paradessence:01 Apsis02 Skylight03 Disque (feat. Motion Graphics)04 Balloon05 Slippage06 Telescoping07 Shapes (feat. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)08 Thinking (feat. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)09 Zinna10 Swirl11 Steel12 Intarsia (feat. Ioana Șelaru)13 Capgras14 System (feat. Componium Ensemble)Visible Cloaks: Paradessence£22.99 at Rough Trade