WL//WH Premiere GUENTNER + SPIETH
The German Electronic/Ambient Pop veterans, Guentner + Spieth tease their forthcoming second collaborative studio album, “Conversion,” due out on October 3, 2025, via the Affin label, with a Video by Markus Guentner himself for the second excerpt, “Vortex,” WL//WH is very pleased to premiere.
“Conversion”, the sophomore Guentner + Spieth opus, dives deep into their shared musical roots to reinterpret them through a contemporary, nuanced lens. The result is a body of work that blends ambient expansiveness with dub-inspired detail – layered soundscapes that balance openness with structure. Unbound by conventional formats, the album moves fluidly between rhythmic depth and atmospheric stillness. Bass drums appear alongside quiet passages, carried by floating pads, carefully placed accents, and a sense of space that feels both introspective and organic. “Conversion” is both a tribute to shared origins and a statement of artistic evolution.
A metaphysical, seamless inward stream of deep layered soundscapes, aquatic textures and atmospheric intensity builds a gentle whooshing ebb and flow with a cool, fresh rushing sensation, paving the way for an underwater, muted, unwavering heartbeat that increases in loudness and strength, laced with nebulous fizzling rarefactions, subtle droning tides, and vibrant, shining reverbs, all tenderly swirling, misting, and gleaming outward into a sinuous and highly evocative whole of a newfound mindful lucidity.
For the paired visuals, created by Markus Guentner, imagine waking up and your eyes have a hard time adjusting to the light. There is a darkness, but as you hold your focus, an outline appears, and it begins to look like the sky with layers of fluffy and feathery white clouds. There is a translucent charcoal grey veil that remains over the eye, hindering vibrancy as the formations slowly shift and turn into imaginative thought forms. The soundtrack seamlessly syncs with the abstract images and gives them a sonic relational depth. It’s strange, depending on how you watch it, it sometimes feels as if you are looking up, and at other times facing down as the clouds become snow-covered mountaintops observed from 30,000 feet. Textures build one upon the other to enhance dimension and symmetry, causing a mix of joy, comfort, fear and anxiety, at the hands of something found, and something lost.
Guentner + Spieth‘s sophomore studio album, “Conversion,” is scheduled for release, in 6-panel Digipack CD & Digital formats, on October 3, 2025, via the Affin label,
Keep up with the artists:
MARKUS GUENTNER | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | linktr.ee |
JOACHIM SPIETH | Website | Substack| Bandcamp | Instagram | linktr.ee |
