'Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed.

Gone are the sampled 78’s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just can’t quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings? Found Sounds? Sheets of metal scraped and hammered? Drum machines re-wired? It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling - but often just beautiful.

The Stranger - So Pale It Shone In The Night

Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed.

Gone are the sampled 78’s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just can’t quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings? Found Sounds? Sheets of metal scraped and hammered? Drum machines re-wired? It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling - but often just beautiful.

The Stranger - Spiral Of Decline

The Stranger - We Scarcely See Sunlight

The Stranger - Providence Or Fate

The Stranger - Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends ?

The Stranger - Grey Day Drift

Death Grips / Autechre - Culture Peng

Chill EP with a sound for doing your own thing.  This is the soundtrack of your day and this is the best wake and bake for your money.  Music for an introverted world. Music to start OR end the day. Helping unload the burdens of life, so that you can focus on what matters, you.

terrible hearts

by Motas.

Artwork by Gabrielė Jurevičiūtė.

Area / 2017 09 29

Acute

chris††† 
deep dark trench 
sept. 10th
christtt.bandcamp.com/album/deep-dark-trench

The Stranger - Providence Or Fate

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