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Liz Lawrence

Peanuts

Chrysalis Records

Coloured LP

£23.99

Yellow coloured vinyl.

Cat Number

BRVC180LP-C1

Release date

Expected 7 Jun '24

Format Info

Yellow coloured vinyl.

Release date: Expected 7 Jun '24

Described as an "intensely British" record, Peanuts is a wry and observational album, with a newfound sense of compassion and reflection on Liz's inner feelings and their projection on the outside world. Peanuts is a playground game, also known as Mercy, where two kids twist each other's fingers until one cries out, 'Peanuts!', signaling that they have met their pain threshold.

From 2013, Liz was performing as a backing singer for Bombay Bicycle Club up to their hiatus in 2016, and again when they reformed in 2019, touring the world. Liz has been a regular collaborator with the band ever since, “It was a life-raft for me. It was such a natural fit, and they became my friends for life” says Liz. Peanuts is Liz Lawrence's first album release with Chrysalis Records, spanning 11 tracks full of topics spanning from plant names to the gender wealth gap.

“Peanuts is Cate Le Bon meets Primal Scream going off on one about landowners. It’s learning the names of different trees and sweating over being polite in emails. It’s a petition to stop Elon Musk from spacejunking up the atmosphere so we can’t see the stars anymore and it’s a big deep breath after going under.” -Liz Lawrence

TRACK LISTING

1. Big Machine
2. Names Of Plants And Animals
3. No One
4. That's Life
5. Oars
6. No Worries If Not
7. Strut
8. Nitrogen
9. S.U.R.V.I.V.E
10. On Loss And Overcoming Despair
11. Top Level Joy

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Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English

Selene

Temporary Residence Ltd.

Coloured LP

£28.99

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Cat Number

TRR428LPC1

Release date

Expected 31 May '24

Format Info

Indies only limited edition cloudy white coloured vinyl edition of 500.

Release date: Expected 31 May '24

LP

£25.99

Black vinyl edition.

Cat Number

TRR428LP

Release date

Expected 31 May '24

Format Info

Black vinyl edition.

Release date: Expected 31 May '24

The first collaboration from renowned artists and composers, Akira Kosemura (Japan) and Lawrence English (Australia).

Atmosphere and gravity lean into each other. They are simultaneously expansive, and anchoring. They hold us, and lend a sense of perspective. They provide a stability and a knowingness which is essential in the absolute, and yet we can’t help but find ourselves gazing upward, outward and reaching towards that which sits outside those things and ways we know.

Selene is a record about that this lingering desire for that which sits beyond.

It is work that seeks new perspectives snatched from familiar vistas, and it meditates on that sense of anchor and perspective. The work is also a speculative hymn to the visions of the celestial zones that spill ever outward. These visions, once merely what we could perceive with the naked eye are now so much more. Our minds eye is fed in equal parts by radio telecopy, filmic dreams and fiction renders of a place most of us will never know first-hand. This recording ties into a linage that reaches back, while stretching forward. It is just one story of so many, told across places, across cultures, across generations. It sits in the in-between of before and after, and in that moment invites us to situate ourselves and lean into it.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crescents (6:10)
2. Crater (5:46)
3. Thela (4:56)
4. The Shadow Falling (5:29)
5. Twilight Wave (4:14)
6. Tint Of Ionosphere (6:30)
7. Mirroring Feldspar (4:21)

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Loscil / Lawrence English

Colours Of Air - 2024 Reissue

Kranky Records

2xLtd LP

£36.99

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Cat Number

KRANK236LP

Release date

22 Mar '24

Format Info

First vinyl issue for this 2023 release with bonus track not available on CD.

The union of composers Lawrence English and loscil aka Scott Morgan is seamless, sublime, and long overdue.

Born of a conversation centered on the notion of “rich sources” as a forge for electronic music, Colours Of Air is a collection of recordings of a century old pipe organ housed at the historic Old Museum in Brisbane, Australia, which were then processed, transformed, and elevated into eight majestic electro-acoustic threshold devotionals. The timbre of the instrument and spatial fluctuations of room tone infuse the music with a subdued, sacred feel, like vaulted light in a nave of stained glass. They describe the album as “an iterative project, a reduction and eventual expansion,” sifting the swells and drones of the organ for every shivering shade of radiance.

The tracks are named for the hue each piece suggests – from the gauzy levitational miasma of “Yellow” to the pulsing melancholic mirage of “Violet” to the seething twilit sandstorm of “Magenta.” Morgan and English are both adept at conjuring moods of muted grandeur, like landscapes veiled in dusk, still looming and luminous.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cyan
2. Aqua
3. Yellow
4. Grey
5. Black
6. Pink
7. Violet
8. Gold
9. Magenta

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Lawrence Le Doux

Insula Dulcamara

Nous Klaer Audio

Brussels based soundtrack mastermind Lawrence Le Doux returns to Nous'klaer Audio with a 5-tracks EP: "Insula Dulcamara". Crafting visions of otherworldly bliss through his soothing soundscapes and undulating rhythms.

Pairing heart-wrenching beauty with staggeringly sophisticated production has yielded an EP which connects directly to our emotions without having to revisit past tropes or pre-existing successful archetypes. It's new, fresh, arresting; but possesses that warmth and depth which we associate with electronica classics of a by-gone era. Recommended!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Beautifully ethereal and otherworldly electronix bolstered with dub sensibilities and finesse. A mind expanding 5-dimensional listen.

TRACK LISTING

Villa Di Anna
Notation
Nord Zimmer
May Picture
Insula Dulcamara

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Liz Lawrence

The Avalanche

Second Breakfast

LP

£18.99
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Cat Number

SB014LP

Release date

8 Oct '21

Liz Lawrence returns with her heavily anticipated new album The Avalanche, following 2019’s critically-acclaimed Pity Party and 2020’s Whoosh EP. The album contains 11 brand new tracks, including the singles Where The Bodies Are Buried and Down For Fun. Written and recorded in ‘The Coffin’ - her self-built garden shed home studio - during the lockdown of 2020, the album showcases Liz’s growth as both a songwriter & producer and positions her as the UK’s foremost fully independent alt-pop solo artist.

TRACK LISTING

1. Down For Fun
2. Babies
3. Drive
4. Saturated
5. I'll Go On
6. Violent Speed
7. Where The Bodies Are Buried
8. Simple Pleasures
9. Heart Of Gold
10. Birds
11. The Avalanche

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Lawrence English

Observation Of Breath

Hallow Ground

Do you remember the last time you were breathing consciously? Either way, you are likely doing it now. On his new album Observation of Breath« for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label, Lawrence English worked exclusively with an organ for four compositions that are exercises in »maximal minimalism,« as their creator himself notes in a nod to Charlemagne Palestine, who coined this term. While it seems somewhat fitting that those four pieces based on a steady flow of air were conceived and recorded in a situation of accelerated standstill caused by a respiratory disease, the Room40 founder is not so much concerned with capturing the zeitgeist than rather incorporating the spirit of time itself. »It is a record about presence and patience,« he explains.

Exploring the unique sonic affordances of a singular instrument,
»Observation of Breath« is not only devoted to the durability of sound but also to its density. That it marks his debut on Hallow Ground after having shaped its sound by mastering most of the label’s releases in recent years is just as fitting then as its release following albums by Kali Malone and FUJI|||||||||||TA, whose innovative work with organ instruments have facilitated a rediscovery of their possibilities.English’s compositions however are neither directly indebted nor responding to these musicians. His exploration of the organ’s many facets started a decade ago when the composer was given access to an instrument built in 1889 that is presently housed at The Old Museum in Brisbane.

After it had already played a crucial role on his seminal albums »Wilderness Of Mirrors« and »Cruel Optimism,« last year’s self-released »Lassitude« was the first record that English entirely composed and recorded with that instrument. »During the soft lockdowns, I spent many days playing to an empty concert hall, recording the pieces that became ›Lassitude‹ and then, this album,« says English in regards to an unfortunate situation that fortunately provided him with time and space—two major themes but also key qualities of the four new compositions. In this sense, he goes on, »Observation of Breath« resolves a number of the questions originally raised by »Lassitude.«

TRACK LISTING

1) A Torso (10:01)
2) A Binding (06:05)
3) And A Twist (02:42)
4) Observation Of Breath (20:44)

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Lawrence Lek

AIDOL (OST)

Hyperdub

Hyperdub are excited to present our first soundtrack release, Lawrence Lek's score for his debut feature film ‘AIDOL’, which premiered at Sadie Coles HQ in 2019 and has been shown at numerous virtual and physical festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Lawrence Lek is a simulation artist who uses computer-generated animation and video game engines to create films and virtual worlds that play with the language of science fiction, music videos and corporate world building. He has released soundtracks to five of his previous projects, most recently ‘Temple’ OST (Vinyl Factory, 2020).

‘AIDOL’ continues his on-going 'Sinofuturist' cinematic universe, which posits the creative theory that China's technological rise is an emergent form of Artificial Intelligence. ‘AIDOL’ is a CGI fantasy that tells the story of a fading superstar, Diva, who enlists an aspiring AI songwriter to mount a comeback performance at the 2065 eSports Olympic finale. Set in a realm of spectacular architecture, sentient drones and snow-deluged jungles, ‘AIDOL’ revolves around the long and evolving struggle between humanity and Artificial Intelligence; a shifting and seductive virtual reality, punctuated by Diva’s songs and the voice of Kode9 as the unforgiving label boss. The soundtrack is a delicate lattice - complex, opaque and entirely synthetic. Diva’s yearning vocals - created with a Vocaloid voice synthesiser, sung in English and Mandarin - cast classical melodies over billowing, intricate arrangements. The instrumental tracks, produced with composer Seth Scott, are elegiac and beautiful, hybridising the film score archetype, folding in patterns from game soundtracks, vaporwave, and ambient fourth world music.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Intro (My Single Isn't Finished Yet)
A2. Deep Blue Monday
A3. In The Game
A4. Chance Encounter (Jungle Theme)
A5. Call Of Beauty
A6. Welcome To SoMA
A7.Unreal A8.Superstar

B1. One Nation
B2.Beware Your Fans, Diva
B3. Call Of Beauty (eSports Reprise)
B4.Followers (Diva's Theme)
B5.Farsight's Greatest Star
B6. In My Prime (Bonus Track)
B7.Apocalypse (End Credits)

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Liz Lawrence

Pity Party

Second Breakfast

Coloured LP

£14.99
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Cat Number

SB004LPX

Release date

8 Nov '19

Format Info

Indies exclusive white vinyl.

Liz dug deep and discovered her own sound, taught herself how to produce and soon realised that she had become good enough to make her own music in the way she wanted to make it, on her own terms. The fruits of her labour are brought together for this new album. She wrote six of the songs in just five days (while holed up in a dilapidated friends’ house in Cornwall) – proving that forcing herself out of her comfort zone and embracing a solitary existence - for a short time at least- reaped huge benefits for her personally and musically.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Came Looking
2. But Love
3. Navigator
4. None Of My Friends
5. USP
6. Shoes
7. Want
8. Life Again
9. What People Do
10. 10 Breaths
11. Rivers

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Ned Sublette & Lawrence Weiner

Remixed Water

Book Works

"Remixed Water" is remixed from two of Ned Sublette & Lawrence Weiner's collaborative albums "Monsters From The Deep" and "Ships At Sea, Sailors And Shoes". Conceived by Mark Beasley and generously supported by Weiner and Sublette, eight tracks have been selected and reconfigured by invited contemporary artists and musicians, re-staging and manipulating Weiner's lyrics within the musical genres of two-step, West Coast laptop electronica, noisecore, math rock and hard house, to produce a Frankenstein's monster of eclipsed origins. Remixers include: Bonnie Camplin, Steven Claydon, Erotic Ghosts Of Veitman, Filariahead, Luke Fowler & Daniel Padden, Sutekh, Tussle and Christopher Willits. Limited to 1000 copies with a 12 page booklet.

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