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Colin Stetson

The Love It Took To Leave You

Invada Records UK

2xColoured LP

£31.99
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Black & white swirl vinyl

Cat Number

INV317LPC1

Release date
6 Jun '25
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Black & white swirl vinyl

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

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Gazelle Twin

Black Dog

Invada Records UK

Coloured LP

£23.99

Frosted clear vinyl.

Cat Number

INV305LP

Release date
27 Oct '23
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Frosted clear vinyl.

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

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