The World Is A Bell Leaf Library, The SKU: WIALP080 Barcode: 5057805487685 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Where It's At Is Where You Are Released Date: 25th October 2019 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The record is an ambitious and expansive update of their warm, hypnotic drone-pop encompassing gently pulsing electronics, chiming guitars, minimalist piano, acoustic and synthesised drones, noise, improv and intricate brass and string arrangements, all in the service of the band’s most assured and experimental songwriting yet. Two years in the making it features guest contributions from (amongst others) celebrated singer Ed Dowie, noise group Far Rainbow, fellow space-pop travellers Firestations and the string quartet Iskra Strings. It draws on all aspects of the band’s work so far, from indie guitar pop to ambient atmospherics, via surging rhythms and layered, melancholic vocals. This is the band’s second album (seventh if you count the various remix, side-project and short run CDR and tape releases they have put out over the last few years), and is the official follow up to 2015’s debut Daylight Versions (5* The Guardian). It begins with ‘In Doors And Out Through Windows’, a minimal piano and vibraphone incantation in 7/4, with shades of Dot and Loops-era Stereolab, their summery strum replaced here with twilit, unsettling repetition and melancholy brass swells. First single ‘Hissing Waves’ is the most pop the band have ever sounded, its skipping Insides-esque electronics and looping verses pulling the listener back to daylight and the disorienting “transparent spaces” of the city. ‘Patience’ (featuring guest vocals by Ed Dowie) is the closest the band come to the sound of ‘Daylight Versions’, cresting on waves of guitars and an insistent synth arpeggio. Elsewhere we find the title track’s pointillist strings (arranged by the band’s saxophonist Daniel Fordham), hypnotic vocal rituals on noise/improv detour ‘Bodies Carried Off By Bees’ (featuring Far Rainbow) and the Yo La Tengo-meet-Section 25 repetitions of ‘An Endless’, its bright guitar arpeggios and billowing synths unfurling across ten minutes of glorious repetition. Titled after a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote (“The world is a bell that is cracked, it clatters but does not ring out clearly”) the album turns its attention away from the coastal obsessions of ‘Daylight Versions’ to more surreal and atmospheric contemplations. The album reaches its end with the fittingly grandiose ‘Paper Boats On Black Ink Lake’. The radio unfriendly (at nearly 20 minutes long) track drifts in on sleepwalk-slow guitars, recalling Earth at their most serene, while Kate Gibson and Melinda Bronstein’s vocals float over a bed of strings that could be Robert Kirby scoring Low’s Secret Name. The World Is A Bell is an album of dense and unhurried songs, rich in sonic detail and ambitious in scope, its music simultaneously intimate and epic. Guitarist and lyricist Matt says, “We wanted to create something that was completely its own thing, that was in no hurry to get anywhere and that contained large expanses for listeners to get lost in. For fans of Insides, Stereolab, Low, Bark Psychosis, Yo La Tengo, Seefeel, Julia Holter. Artist Leaf Library, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Where It's At Is Where You Are Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings In Doors And Out Through Windows Hissing Waves Patience Larches Eat Moths The World Is A Bell Bright Seas Bodies Carried Off By Bees An Endless More Than Half Asleep Paper Boats On Black Ink Lake Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leaf Library, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Leaf Library, The Library Music Volume One Rock And Pop | Where It's At Is Where You Are | 2LP Released 28th October 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leaf Library, The Library Music Volume One £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Where It's At Is Where You Are SKU: WIA109LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs The Best Of Under The Covers Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd May 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs The Best Of Under The Covers £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC643 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Savoy Motel Savoy Motel Rock And Pop | Whats Your Rupture? | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 21st October 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Savoy Motel Savoy Motel £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Whats Your Rupture? 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