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Colin Stetson

The Love It Took To Leave You

    Following last year’s JUNO award winning album 'When We Were That What Wept From The Sea', 'The Love It Took To Leave You' features 11 new pieces of emotionally scorching music.

    The album was recorded over a week in 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year-old former metalworks facility in Montreal with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. From the album’s opening track Stetson charts a carefully sequenced ride, travelling through intense territories punctuated with tragic melodies that seek transcendence, epic and frenzied shredders, and many shades of scary beauty, betrayal, and redemption. This is the art of storytelling wrought instrumentally. 'The Love It Took To Leave You' is a perfect storm of technical, musical and compositional complexity and achievement. 


    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: It would be putting it mildly to say I don't completely understand what Stetson actually does to produce the sound he does, and this comes from someone who played saxophone for a few years. He's an unfathomable genius at his chosen instrument, obviously but there is always such a strong narrative thread and emotional intensity tied to Stetson's work, that it never seems like the instrumental athleticism is ever the core facet of his music. It's rich, emotional, hypnotic dynamic instrumental music that only Stetson could do.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. The Love It Took To Leave You
    2. The Six
    3. The Augur
    4. Hollowing
    5. To Think We Knew From Fear
    6. Malediction
    7. Green And Grey And Fading Light
    8. Strike Your Forge And Grin
    9. Ember
    10. So Say The Soaring Bullbats
    11. Bloodrest

    The KVB

    Tremors

      'Tremors' sees Manchester-based cold wave duo The KVB return to the darker sound that embodied their earliest releases whilst retaining the infectious energy of their previous album Unity which MOJO described as having a “sense of wonderment throughout”. The band have dubbed their sound on 'Tremors' as ‘dystopian pop’, and wrote it with the live show in mind; full of energy, hooks and dynamic moments. Writing the album between Manchester and Bristol, the band have drawn on their own back catalogue and the music that inspired them at the very beginning of their artistic journey. The end result is the most complete album from The KVB to date, full of emotive impact and hooks presented in a uniquely shadowy atmosphere with an idiosyncratic detachment that adds to the cinematic quality of their sound.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Negative Drive
      2. Words
      3. Tremors
      4. Labyrinths
      5. In The Silence
      6. Tremors (Reprise)
      7. Overload
      8. Dead Of Night
      9. A Thirst
      10. Deep End

      Gazelle Twin

      Black Dog

        In her three studio albums to date, Gazelle Twin has looked out: out at cities, out from a tormented body, out at the squirming guts of rural Britain, but on her first album for new label, Invada Records, she turns her gaze inwards. Black Dog is an album about confronting fear, and the expectation that the things that lurked in the darkness when you were a child will disappear as you become an adult.

        Black Dog tells a story that unfurls like a film. It addresses how our childhoods shaped our adulthoods: how any sense of trauma and grief is burnished onto a person’s memories forever, however much we try and escape it. Black Dog suggests how these feelings return in particular intensity when a person becomes a parent, as they watch themselves pass things on that they wish they hadn’t, wish they wouldn’t.

        In some ways, Bernholz is purging herself on this album. Unlike her masked characters for previous releases, her face is recognisable and, she explains, she is “not as removed this time” from her persona. She is imagining herself as a medium for the voices inside herself, rather than looking out to displace them with other ideas. She emerges huge and godly as she does so, her voice moving from delicate tenderness to doom-driven power.

        This is an album where old stories have to be pillaged, digested, and regurgitated to write new ones, where we have to question ourselves utterly. Black Dog looks back and looks in and looks back and looks in. We enter as we listen. We turn ourselves inside-out altogether.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. I Disappear
        2. Sweet Dream
        3. Black Dog
        4. Fear Keeps Us Alive
        5. The Long Room
        6. Two Worlds
        7. Unstoppable Force
        8. This House
        9. Author Of You
        10. Walk Through Walls
        11. A Door Opens

        Oliver Coates

        Significant Other (Music From The Motion Picture)

          "Significant Other" is now available on vinyl. The score comes pressed on blue vinyl, housed in a spined sleeve with download card and double-sided printed insert. Significant Other follows the sinister events plague a young couple when they take a backpacking trip through the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Oliver Coates is a cellist, composer and music producer known for his work with Radiohead, Mica Levi and more.

          TRACK LISTING

          Forest Replicant
          Deer Jumpscare
          Theme's In Ruth's Mind
          First Montage
          Isn't That Enough
          The Cave & Second Montage
          Proposal At The Cliff Face
          Harry's Return
          Goodbye Ruth (Do I Love You?)
          Beach
          Shark
          Endcave
          Ruth Smash
          Dread Credits


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