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Gazelle Twin

Unflesh - 10 Year Anniversary Reissue

    This reissue celebrates the 10th anniversary of Gazelle Twin’s second album, Unflesh. Featuring new artwork by Grammy award-winning design agency Barnbrook, and on limited edition blue vinyl for the first time.

    The Quietus’ Album of the Year in 2014.
    “A rich, dark and gorgeous album, bristling with sonic challenge and literary depth” 8/10 - UNCUT
    "Strange and beautiful" 4/5 - Q Magazine
    "This album, with its pristine interiors, captures the intimacy of her trauma perfectly. It’s an immaculate as a hotel in a JG Ballard novel, and just as bloody scary." 9/10 - Pop Matters
    "Unflesh is at times a disturbing and upsetting listen, but it is also a triumph of will over circumstance.” 8/10 - Music OMH
    “Unflesh is a truly brilliant piece of work, and the sound of an artist trailblazing through as yet uninhabited territory.” 8/10 - Drowned in Sound
    “Weird and wonderful and quite literally the sound of pure fear” 4/5 - Artrocker (Album Of The Month)

    Gazelle Twin

    The Entire City (Special Edition)

      In 2011 Gazelle Twin self-released ‘The Entire City’, a debut album that gathered rapid acclaim and sparked a decade of creativity during which its creator, Elizabeth Bernholz has built big upon her foundation of dark, cinematic energy. The album is now set to be reissued on deluxe CD, together with ‘The Wastelands’, a mini “twin” album of material made around the same period, though never released commercially. Where 'The Entire City’ remains intact with its original master and tracklisting, ‘The Wastelands’ expands on this shadowy, futurescape, featuring foreboding, percussive songwriting, with euphoric choral swells. The release features the captivating photo collage artwork of British artist, Suzanne Moxhay

      TRACK LISTING

      1 The Entire City
      2 Concrete Mother
      3 Men Like Gods
      4 I Am Shell I Am Bone
      5 Far From Home
      6 Changelings
      7 Bell Tower
      8 When I Was Otherwise
      9 Obelisk
      10 Nest
      11 Fight-or-Flight
      12 View Of A Mountain

      CD Version - CD 2 The Wastelands

      1 Wastelands
      2 Adrenalin
      3 Hole In My Heart
      4 Ascent
      5 The Future
      6 I Hear You Call



      Gazelle Twin

      The Wastelands

        'The Wastelands' is an album of material made around the same period as 'The Entire City' though never released commercially. The album expands on 'The Entire City's shadowy, futurescape, featuring foreboding, percussive songwriting, with euphoric choral swells. 'The Wastelands' also features the captivating photo collage artwork of British artist, Suzanne Moxhay.

        TRACK LISTING

        1/Wastelands
        2/Adrenalin
        3/Hole In My Heart
        4/Ascent
        5/The Future
        6/I Hear You Call

        “What species is this? What century?” Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that “there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the “quaint” ”.

        The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui.

        Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz’s J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show ’Kingdom Come’ (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England.

        As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin “The Composer, Musician and Producer” has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholz’s signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of ‘90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory.

        In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin “The Artist and Performer”, constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century.
        The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and DANGER. “It” (not “she”) hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The “Ye Olde” and “The Everyman” of the English cliché. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelle’s, and a mad, fixed GRIN - first glimpsed in the single, ‘Hobby Horse’ (22 June, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Martin says: Bernholz returns for another brilliantly off-piste collection of post-NIN industrial scree, thudding glitches and bit-crushed vocal abstractions, filtered through a rosy, synth-pop filter and smashed into a thousand pieces before being reformed, Burrough-style. Completely baffling but thoroughly brilliant.

        TRACK LISTING

        1/ Folly
        2/ Better In My Day
        3/ Little Lambs
        4/ Old Thorn
        5/ Dieu Et Mon Droit
        6/ Throne
        7/ Mongrel
        8/ Glory
        9/ Tea Rooms
        10/ Jerusalem
        11/ Dance Of The Peddlers
        12/ Hobby Horse
        13/ Sunny Stories
        14/ Over The Hills


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