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Los Angeles-based visual artist and musician Lionel Williams was born and raised in a family of musicians - he is the grandson of soundtrack composer John Williams. Since 2010, he has been releasing music as Vinyl Williams. After three albums released on No Pain In Pop (Lemniscate, 2012) and Chaz Bundick's Company (Into, 2015 and Brunei, 2016), Vinyl Williams joined French label Requiem Pour Un Twister for his fourth album Opal released in 2018. Throughout his art, both musical and visual, Lionel Williams explores the syncretistic territory between reality and dreams, between earth and space. "Music is a chance to transmute qualitative opposites into the center, to dissolve all illusions of duality", he says. Since chaos and disorder are an illusion, Vinyl Williams is trying to reach a new state of celestial harmony on Opal. The result is an album fueled with mysticism and space age utopia, ten kaleidoscopic lush pop songs that takes you into a transcendental journey on an opal marbled vinyl limited to 500 copies.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sanctuary Spells
2. Noumena
3. Spirit Of Now
4. Lansing
5. Aphelion
6. Florian Veridiction
7. Nether Congrenes
8. None With Other
9. Eternity
10. Millenial Ballroom

Low / Dømes

All Night / Opal

    Vinyl only release from God Unknown featuring the mighty LOW b/w DØMES.Low offer 'All Night' from their massively acclaimed album 'So What' on Sub Pop. 'Opal' is the first release from the Anglo / American Dømes, their debut album will be released in 2023. This is also the last ever single from God Unknown Records infamous Singles Club. Eighty artists split over forty split 7”s and finishing with an almighty bang with LOW and DØMES.

    Please note Low - 'All Night' is a vinyl only track - no digital will be available.

    Vinyl Williams

    Opal

      After three albums released on No Pain In Pop (Lemniscate, 2012) and Chaz Bundick’s Company (Into, 2015, Brunei, 2016), Vinyl Williams has joined French label Requiem Pour Un Twister for his fourth album: Opal. Throughout his art, both musical and visual, Lionel Williams is always exploring the syncretistic territory between reality and dreams, between earth and space. For him “music is a chance to transmute qualitative opposites into the center, to dissolve all illusions of duality”. As “chaos and disorder is an illusion”, with Opal, Vinyl Williams is trying to reach a new state of celestial harmony. The result of which is an album fuelled with mysticism and space age utopia, ten kaleidoscopic lush pop songs that takes you into a transcendental journey.

      For fans of: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Toro Y Moi, Todd Rundgren, Morgan Delt, Mild High Club, Triptides, Homeshake and Connan Mockasin

      TRACK LISTING

      Sanctuary Spells
      Noumena
      Spirit Of Now
      Lansing
      Aphelion
      Florian Veridiction
      Nether Congrenes
      None With Other
      Eternity
      Millenial Ballroom

      On this debut EP from Sydney's Cop Envy, the producer comes roaring out of the starting gates with a screeching combo of slow-mo acid and analogue techno. 'BGFT' could easily be tucked away in a Drexciya album somewhere, resonant 303's squeal out a mid-range bass pattern while grainy hi-hats smash out burning strips of saturated fire. 'Inner Another' is a bit more of a minimal affair, percussion loops layering over each-other before rising into a cacophony of sycopated alternate hits, hypnotic groove growing to boiling point before a perfect single-note melody rides the waves perfectly, giving just enough pitched rhythm to keep things moving.  The B-Side jumps straight back into the heat with 'Handle Broker', an echoing and rousing space-acid stormer, as effective and hypnotic as ever, before finishing on the Manse Edit of BGFT, a frantic industrial take on the original track. 

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: A hot and saturated acid trip through space, resonant 303 basslines and skittering analogue drums fly through the cosmos, multiplying into a frenzy of overdriven atmospheres and pitch-perfect percussion.

      TRACK LISTING

      A1 BGFT 6:05
      A2 Inner Another 5:12
      B1 Handle Broker 5:26
      B2 BGFT (Manse Edit) 6:20

      Downer pop songsmith Oliver Wilde has unveiled details of his highly anticipated second LP, Red Tide Opal in the Loose End Womb, due for release on May 5th through Bristol’s most forward thinking DIY label Howling Owl Records.

      An organic progression from Oliver Wilde’s debut album A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears, which as well as gaining critical acclaim from The Guardian, Loud & Quiet, Drowned in Sound, and DIY et al, also helped him build a passionate following through smaller yet well respected champions of independent music; Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb finds the prodigal artist expanding musically his sonic experimentation and lyrically the surreal yet intimate imagery that has so enraptured listeners.

      From ‘Stomach Full of Cats’ infectious synth swirls, ‘Smiler’s foreboding, pulsing electronics through to the record’s soaring crescendo ‘Vessel’ – written during Wilde’s time spent in hospital recovering from heart failure – Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb is an album that rewards listeners with subtle gems, buried within.

      Describing the process behind the album, Wilde states “Lyrically, A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears felt like a series of introspective, often personal confessions whereas Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb explores relationships occurring between those close to me and abstract concepts through dreamlike prose. Though, at the heart, Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb is still a bedroom recording, musically the overall palette overflows into a wider variety of textures. Also, as a natural progression through developing the live show and entrusting a group of musicians that started out as a ‘backing band’, they then became more involved and enabled me to filter their ideas into my world. Therefore, changing the overall textures and features in some of the recordings. As we become more of a family, I hope we will explore our ideas more collectively in the future.”

      TRACK LISTING

      1. On This Morning
      2. Stomach Full Of Cats
      3. St Elmo's Fire
      4. Say Yes To Ewans
      5. Plume
      6. Smiler
      7. Play & Be Saved
      8. Pull
      9. Rest Less
      10. Balance Out
      11. Night In Time Lapse
      12. Vessel


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