Andrew Sherwell

Heartbreaking tracks

Alien Isolation end theme (by Creative Assembly)

Alien Isolation Soundtrack End Credits - Alien Isolation Soundtrack [End Credits]

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 4th of November 2016

Inigo Kennedy’s relationship with Token spans the label’s existence. He set the mood for what was to come from the very first release: A refined, yet courageous excursion, instantly recognisable as fitting with his own sonic identity, cultivated over many years of experience. This sound has become definitive in the context of Token’s output ever since. After his previous contribution earlier this year, a record thematically obsessed with a line of obscure interstellar clouds, he’s back with another double A-side for our next release.
 
Surrender begins with a textured awakening. The intermixture of slow swells and attentively-dashed accents in a range of timbres guides us blindly towards a shocking, strident interruption when the percussion is suddenly introduced with full and resolute force. As the track continues Kennedy makes sense of the unexpected jolt on our behalf, and the two opposing inclinations become one. 
 
Castles In The Air retains a similar theme, with the kind of self-awareness that only a producer of Kennedy’s level of maturity can employ. Gloomy, lingering chords begin and then pause, forcing us to wait expectantly, with more than a moment lingering in reverb. When the full arrangement appears, it kicks at least twice as hard as the introduction could ever have prepared us for. 

A. Surrender
AA. Castles In The Air 

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TOKEN67 - Inigo Kennedy - Surrender / Castles In The Air

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@yancitygurl 'In Your Strange Worlds' speeds up the highway in a rage-fuelled race of cursed ghost ships and zombie crews. Oscillating from a hi-NRG Detroit electro kind of vibe to haunting string flights in a dash, it reveals as efficient as a full on emotional burner as it is of a proper propulsive floor weapon.

YancityGurl - In Your Strange Worlds

For my friend Siavash.
Detail from Leading the Life in the West by William Orpen, 1910

Leading The Life In The West (For Siavash Amini)

370 years ago this weekend, Alice Young was the first witch executed in the American colonies (26th May 1647).
Korg Volca Keys and Sample, field recordings and cheap effect boxes edited in Ableton and in desperate need of mastering.

And She Did Smile As She Swung

They are the Dead Days, these days between Christmas and New Year. A quiet, limbo period of between-festive blues, of waiting, of reflection. A chance to reflect on the year passed and the year to come. A chance to enjoy being quiet. Read a book, a quiet book. Listen to music, quiet music. Let go, listen well and you will hear, there is a magic flowing beneath the quiet, beyond the fog, through the Dead Days.
https://coffeeandflapjacks.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/music-for-the-dead-days-two-2017/
Music for the Dead Days Two – 2017
1.	Hands from the Sky – Prairie Lines (Eyes Down Slowdown, Whitelabrecs 2017)
2.	A.cutlerie or how I used to eat my heart – Teleferick (Sixteen Frames, Whitelabrecs 2017)
3.	Skeinan – Autumna (Lutalica, Shimmering Moods 2017)
4.	Light Snowfall – Norihito Suda (Light Snowfall, Fluid Audio/Facture 2017)
5.	Destination – ISM (Imaginary Country, Shimmering Moods 2017)
6.	Bound – Steve Kemner (Gradation Movements, Fluid Audio/Facture 2017)
7.	Ath.rth – David Kolhne (Granular Canvas, Whitelabrecs 2017)
8.	Moments We Have Lost/Tears Roll Down My Cheeks – Jurko Haltuu (And In My Tears And The Heaviness Of Everything I Drowned, Shimmring Moods 2017)

Music For The Dead Days Two 2017

The first of two remixes of Slow Clinic's 'Could Have Been'. The original features on the Elm Records 'A New Leaf' compilation available via the Elm Records bandcamp.

Slow Clinic - Could Have Been (Could Still Be)

Second remix of 'Could Have Been' by  Slow Clinic from Elm Records' 'A New Leaf'. This excellent compilation is available from Elm Records Bandcamp page. Go get it.
Thank you to James Slow Clinic for the tolerance.