Blow Dry Colossus Peter Brewis SKU: 21.00 22.00 £21.00 - £22.00 £21.00 - £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Daylight Saving Records Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Signed Edition Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Signed EditionClear Blow Dry Colossus quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Daylight Saving Records release ‘Blowdry Colossus’, the new solo album by Field Music’s Peter Brewis. The record is Peter’s first solo venture since 2008’s ‘The Week That Was’ and follows collaborative albums with Paul Smith (on 2014’s ‘Frozen By Sight’) and Sarah Hayes (on 2019’s ‘You Tell Me’). The album was recorded over the last year at the Field Music studio in Sunderland, and features contributions from Peter’s brother David, Sarah Hayes and Peter’s son, Alexander. Peter’s work with Field Music, and across all the parallel projects he’s undertaken, has always been characterised by curiosity; an urge to find new musical and lyrical avenues to explore, to mine under-appreciated influences, to combine disparate musical strands. ‘Blowdry Colossus’ makes this tendency more explicit than ever. “I wanted to make something where the music was the focus.” says Peter, “With songs, the lyrics tend to carry the meaning: ‘This song is about…’. I wanted the music to be the meaning – the melodies, harmonies, sounds, structures.” The mostly instrumental album takes cues from the knowing exotica of Yellow Magic Orchestra, the quizzical tunefulness of Thelonious Monk and the pastoral abstractions of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It also has more than a touch of the hyperactive fizz of 8-bit game soundtracks. And like Kraftwerk’s records of the mid and late-70s, this is synthesizer music as art music rather than dance music. But where Kraftwerk took the melodic purity of Schubert and gave it a chilly formality, on ‘Blowdry Colossus’, Peter takes the same elevation of melody and plunges it into a kind of playful chaos, heavy with rhythmic ingenuity. The record is also heavy with sonic mutation. A piano is fed through a ring-modulator until it resembles a flute. A flute combines with an old Casio and becomes a ghostly, tuneful breath. Synth drum loops morph into arpeggios of bubbles or are remade as overdriven hiccups. And, of course, there’s the eponymous hero of the title track: a hairdryer fugue gradually giving way to a squelching, off-balance take on Zeppelin- esque riff rock. The only lyrics on the album appear on ‘Dog Bark Dark’, a surreal wild-dog chase. “I thought I’d have one actual song on here, for something different!” says Peter, “I was thinking of YMO, Quincy Jones, early 90s dance and Captain Beefheart. And the guitar solo was meant to be the discarded bits from Steve Miller’s ‘Abracadabra’. “Throughout the album, it feels like we’ve been diligently following the steps of the KLF’s seminal ‘The Manual’, but once we were sitting in the studio, drinking tea and tinkering with the sequencer, we decided to give up on having a Number One hit and keep playing purely for the joy. Hence, the foray into New Jack Swing on ‘Generation Dial Up’ or the Eno-esque interlude of ‘Warm Wind’.” Available to independent retailers as a signed LP. Artist Peter Brewis Genre Electronica Label Daylight Saving Records Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Signed Edition Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Drumeoscene Lemoncadabra Blowdry Colossus Second Hand Slow Warm Wind Generation Dial Up Dog Bark Dark Smith Made Up Panda Tonic Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Jon Hopkins Asleep Versions Electronica | Domino | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 4th November 2014 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Hopkins Asleep Versions £11.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Domino SKU: RUG622T Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fazer Plex Electronica | City Slang | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 14th January 2022 £22.00 - £23.00 Select options Fazer Plex £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: City Slang Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th January 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Booka Shade Dear Future Self Electronica | Blaufield Music | 2LP Released 4th September 2020 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Booka Shade Dear Future Self £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Blaufield Music SKU: BFMB66LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Moire No Future Electronica | Ghostly International | 1LP Released 17th February 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moire No Future £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghostly International SKU: GI280LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View BadBadNotGood Late Night Tales: BADBADNOTGOOD Electronica | Latenighttales | 2LP Released 28th July 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders BadBadNotGood Late Night Tales: BADBADNOTGOOD £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Latenighttales SKU: ALNLP46 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Foxx and the Belbury Circle Empty Avenues EP Electronica | Ghost Box | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 21st June 2016 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Foxx and the Belbury Circle Empty Avenues EP £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghost Box SKU: GBX019 Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 21st June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Other People Place, The Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th February 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Other People Place, The Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP90R Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View LP Giobbi Light Places Electronica | Counter Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th May 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders LP Giobbi Light Places £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Counter Records SKU: COUNT247 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 12th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sunareht Youth EP Electronica | Lucky Me | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 2nd February 2024 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sunareht Youth EP £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Lucky Me SKU: LM095EP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oneohtrix Point Never Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 8th August 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oneohtrix Point Never Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP292 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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