Name: Back2Last by cylob
Duration: 4 min 59 s
Description: From the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpM83pinxhg&t=690s

Mattias Östling makes a welcome return to Love Love as Rolando Simmons for new LP 'Animatronics' after recent forays on Analogical Force and Furthur Electronix and nearly 8 years on from his Love Love debut 'World Building'. Hailing from rural Sweden, Östling creates understated but rich and dreamlike productions which have seen him become a familiar name beyond the braindance circles his music first found a home in, playing live at venues in the UK like Fold and Houghton Festival.  
  
As is characteristic of Rolando Simmons' work, a strong sense of narrative runs throughout this LP. 'Animatronics' stylistically plays across the gamut of Electronica, from the lush, playful braindance of 2nd track 'Purple Soap', to the upbeat syncopated rhythms within 'GlobalGroove Dust Club', and the slowly advancing icy ambient techno dirge of closer 'Memory Defrost'. The ephemeral ambient elements laced throughout allude to a sense of comfortable sedation but darker shades no doubt loom beneath. Measured in its operation and warm in its presentation, the album often steers into unknown spaces, moving through a range of tonal shifts, all the while feeling contained within a unified and detailed imaginary world.

Animatronics

Rolando Simmons - Cloudless Passenger

subtle mixing done to a 2016 track that had tempo changes

Recorded February 2013, edited and mixed August 2025.

Keinluzt

Lost in a field (premaster) (2014)

Titter

From the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpM83pinxhg&t=690s

Back2Last

From the video https://youtu.be/oOiUZx2BPHs?t=705
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Sixteen bands
Are at my hands
I can make them freeze
Or carry on as I please

All under control
With the ultimate goal
Of making them ring
With a voice that can sing

I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze

Every frequency is mine
To let alone or reassign
To another neighbour
To increase the flavour

Should the occasion arise
To harmonise
I can take every channel
On the instrument panel

And achieve full freeze
And achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze
I achieve full freeze

Back2Last

cylob

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