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Until Silence

    Until Silence is the widescreen-epic third album from Stockholm based duo Roll The Dice. A monumental shift in both sonics and psychogeography. The characteristic framework of piano and synthesiser is reinforced with a newly conscripted 26-piece string section to startling effect.

    Roll The Dice are Peder Mannerfelt (who worked with Fever Ray and records as The Subliminal Kid) and Malcolm Pardon (who writes and records music for film and TV). The new chapter in an ongoing storyline which Pardon and Mannerfelt began crafting on their acclaimed 2010 self-titled debut: their protagonists now displaced from the factories of their last album In Dust, and cast into a Great War.

    Bringing light and shade to electronic architecture, the album features a 26-piece string ensemble with arrangements by Erik Arvinder whose credit include Lykke Li, Robyn and Primal Scream. The cinematic sound of mechanised warfare: life, death, hope and devastation

    Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering in Berlin who reworked tracks from In Dust under his Pole moniker for their 2012 EP In Dubs.

    Roll The Dice will premiere tracks from Until Silence at this year’s Sónar festival in Barcelona, and the duo will appear at events around the world over the coming months. A formidable live proposition: waves of analogue sound coaxed from walls of vintage synthesisers, without a computer in sight.

    Roll The Dice

    In Dust

      "An album of real musical weight, a slap in the face to the vapid music that washes over us ceaselessly. it is a thing of deep beauty, dexterously combining the gravitas of something very old with the excitement of something very new." - Dan Snaith (Caribou) in Music Week July 2011.

      'In Dust' is Roll The Dice’s stunning first full-length album for The Leaf Label, following the limited edition Live In Gothenburg – August 7 2010 12” EP, released for this year’s Record Store Day.

      Influenced by Steve Reich and the Kosmische music of the 70s, there are also parallels to be drawn with contemporary artists such as Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never and Gavin Russom & Delia Gonzalez.

      “Palpably unsequenced and semi-improvised, this set stylishly updates the analogue minimalism of Manuel Gottsching, Tangerine Dream and Conrad Schnitzler with a very 21st century grasp of dub-space and machine-swing. Recommended” Boomkat on Live In Gothenburg.

      Roll The Dice are Peder Mannerfelt (who produces and performs live with Fever Ray and records as The Subliminal Kid) and Malcolm Pardon (who writes and records music for film and TV) . Their emotive and slightly unsettling compositions summon the ghosts in the machine, resonating with pure analogue depth. The album was recorded in their own studio, mixed at the remote Ocean Sound studio in Norway, and mastered and cut by Stefan Betke (Pole) in Berlin.


      STAFF COMMENTS

      Darryl says: Roll The Dice push the kosmische buttons here with their evocative and emotive analogue grooves. Reminiscent of Tangerine Dream, and Manuel Gottsching in their 70s Krautrock pomp, as well as latter day soundscapers like Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never. Superb!


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