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THE LESS YOU KNOW is a detailed traversal.
An anachronistic walk through c̖o̖l ̖l a̖p̖̗s̖̗̘e̖̗d̖̗̘ t̖̗̘ ime̖̗̘ lin̖e̖̗̘̙s̖̗̘̙, ̖ a̖n̖̗̘d̖̗̘ artifacts
The physical world bends around memory as if trying to reconstruct itself through the very words spoken.
e̖̗̘̙ a̖̗̘r̖̗̘ t̖ i ̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠
f̖̗̘̙̜
a̖̗̘̙c̖t̖̗̘̙ s̖̗̘. ̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟  ̖̗̘̙̜̝
the very words spoken.

A collaboration with Alex Reed (Seeming) on vocals

and

Multi-instrumentalist Elijah Hennig on guitar —

that shifts into haunting, fractured territory.

Reed’s lyrics denote evocative, time washed but eerily specific memories — which are then interpreted spatially with Cardinal’s sound design — another frame of reality that warps and fragments around them.

Together they create a sonic palette that stretches from glitchy noir exposition, to 90s pop industrial anthemic plateaus.
Also invoking a world lost in recollection, drowning in detail, and rewinding in loops.
jamming the signal bleed of a song you once knew.
Realities passing in the night

The collaboration was built on Cardinal providing Reed with a loose premise of the albums concept in insolation, and with an instrumental that Cardinal struggled to find his voice in but still wanted to explore.
A blind exploration for all involved.
Cardinal explored several versions of the song with Elijah — letting each versions essence bleed into the one after.


THE LESS YOU KNOW feat Seeming (SINGLE EDITION)

Introducing a new song created in collaboration with the inimitable Vicky Kevich. It was a great pleasure to share the journey of creating the song together! And we would like to thank everyone who helped us deliver it!!!

One Last Dance

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Huzzah!  Interbay is back with another track...that's 491 consecutive days dropping a never-before-heard track here on SoundCloud.  

In these descriptions, I often talk about having the best intentions of pursuing a particular inspiration but not quite hitting that target...and ending up, always, sounding like Interbay.  

This is another one of those times.  Still, I'm rather hoping you'll think it is great!  (...or, even The Great!)  

It all started when I was adding a secondary drum layer on a DIFFERENT track (because that's what we do at Phantom Laboratories West, we experiment over and over again until something ends up being whatever it is going to be) when I saw that there was a drumkit preset named "Voltaire."  

And I immediately made a wish AND IT CAME TRUE!  The drumkit DID intend to sound like the excellent synth-based post punk band Cabaret Voltaire--and I am a big fan of Cabaret Voltaire!  

I had written songs that I thought could be done by either Cremation Dance or DangerScience (post-punk bands that I fronted in the 80s and early 90s)...if only we had a proper synth player (in Cremation Dance, I tried to sing and play keyboards at the same time...and, frankly, I can only remember a couple of songs where that actually worked...and, for DangerScience, though we released an album that had lots of synths all over it, when we filled out the band to do live shows, we ended up being a guitar/bass/drums/singer combo...missing the synths and samplers sound that our album featured.) that were STRONGLY influenced by Cabaret Voltaire.  

I had thought about trying to aim for a CabVoltaire sound since beginning this Interbay project, but the target felt elusive, for whatever reason.  Like Interbay, many Cabaret Voltaire songs include spoken word samples, from various sources--but, especially after their early years, they would feature distinct vocals more frequently...and, as I've said, I'm not quite ready to commit my own vocals to Interbay tracks just yet.  Someday?  Absolutely!  Now?  Evidently not.  

...but the drumkit DID incorporate sounds that, at least to me, seemed to fit perfectly...so, I saved and closed out the other project and started a new one, in order to chase down an Interbay track that would show clear influence from Cabaret Voltaire.  

And, as anyone could have predicted, the influence is not necessarily obvious for anyone who hasn't read this far in the description to know what it is--it ends up soundiing...like Interbay.

But, I still dig the track...and there are certain things about this track that make it separate and distinct from other Interbay synthpop/post-punk tracks, things that I think are reflective of my love for Cabaret Voltaire.  

...if I try this again, I'll definitely want to sing on it myself...(but how could I say no to Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult?)  

I hope you'll listen, like, repost, share, playlist, comment...and follow this page for more!  

Huzzah, indeed!
  

"Voltaire" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

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