Love Remains Strange Boy SKU: LPGRON284 Barcode: 5061010500299 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Groenland Records Released Date: 1st March 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Saturday night and Sunday morning; the sacred and the profane. These are the creative spaces of electronic pop duo Strange Boy. Disillusioned with the elitist hierarchies of classical singing, Kieran Brunt turned his attention to the songwriting world, drawing on his love of storytellers such as Anohni, The Magnetic Fields and Rufus Wainwright. With Brunt weaving a choral narrative on top of collaborator Matt Huxley’s atmospheric soundscapes, Strange Boy create a world rich with symbolism, grandeur and communion. The London-based duo are releasing their debut album, ‘Love Remains’, via Groenland Records. The eleven songs that make up the album have formed gradually years of collaborating since they first met on a night out while wandering through Glastonbury in 2011. After moving to London together to pursue music seriously, Strange Boy’s sound has matured alongside Brunt and Huxley’s notable collaborations with the likes of Terry Riley, Nils Frahm, Clark, Squid, Aurora and artist Jeremy Deller. Combining a bold narrative thrust with grandiose symbolism, Strange Boy have created a suite of impressionistic songs that exist in atmospheric soundworlds. The first single, ‘Boston Blue Period’, sets out the stall as a lush-but-unsettling piece, building over an extended intro then falling away to reveal a tender tale about letting go. Following single ‘Sofia’ opens with a bouncing solo synth; the propulsive pattern ebbs and flows through the song, swelling with the outline of Brunt’s beautiful, bittersweet address to the titular ‘Sofia’, who he explains “was the first child to come into my life as a grown-up. She brought with her such a fun and fresh energy at a time when I was grappling with early adulthood and despairing at what was happening in the world around me.” ‘Follow The News’ is the lead single from the album and draws upon Brunt’s personal experiences with ‘medication and self-medication’. Serious themes of mental illness are brought to the fore across the record, and treated with a mixture of irony, humour and catharsis. Elsewhere on the album, the band lean further into this intimate, reflective mode of storytelling than ever before. ‘November Skies’ combines lo-fi vocal production with the lush strings and guest vocal of Nico Muhly and Anna B. Savage respectively, while Side A closer Whipping Boy’s softly crooned vocals and up-close piano recall the early works of James Blake and Anohni and the Johnsons. Brunt signposts his love for The Magnetic Fields with a cover of cult classic ‘100,000 Fireflies’, recorded in one take over layers of found tape played backwards at half-speed. The album closes with the eponymous ‘Love Remains’, a song written early in the band’s formative years and honed gradually over their time together in live performances. The song swells in intensity as Brunt’s choral-inspired vocal soars over Huxley’s organ drones, industrial layers and experimental string textures, meditating on life and death in a swooping narrative of deep self-introspection. The writing and recording of the album was as dramatic as it’s subject matter: while developing material Brunt was forced to leave his studio space at very short notice and ended up moving into the crypt of a Victorian church in London. The space – beautiful , spooky and very atmospheric – had a grand impact on the sonic imprint of the music, which was completed in Yorkshire alongside producer and mixer Richard Formby. Working with rising star Jack Warne on the artwork, the band decided to make church objects and surroundings integral to the imagery of the album. Ultimately, as the amorphous presence of Strange Boy, Brunt and Huxley have built a sonic world that inspires communion – with ourselves and with something more ethereal. Their debut album is a visceral storytelling experience not to be missed. Artist Strange Boy Genre Electronica Label Groenland Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Boston Blue Period Follow The News Oscar’s Song Drunk In Iceland Whipping Boy (I Count The Fleeing Hours) Annunciation Sofia November Skies 100,000 Fireflies Love Remains Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Vanishing Twin Afternoon X Electronica | Fire Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th October 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vanishing Twin Afternoon X £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP679 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Brett Naucke The Mansion Electronica | Spectrum Spools | 1LP Released 6th July 2021 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Brett Naucke The Mansion £12.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Spectrum Spools SKU: nn226295 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th July 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View µ-Ziq Goodbye Electronica | Planet Mu | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 1st April 2022 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders µ-Ziq Goodbye £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Planet Mu SKU: ZIQ443 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 1st April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Claptone Fantast Electronica | Different Recordings | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th June 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Claptone Fantast £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Different Recordings SKU: DIFU360DLP Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tycho Weather Electronica | Ninja Tune | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th July 2019 £17.00 Select options Tycho Weather £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th July 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Various Artists fabric presents Chase & Status RTRN II FABRIC Electronica | Fabric Worldwide | 2LP Released 30th October 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists fabric presents Chase & Status RTRN II FABRIC £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Fabric Worldwide SKU: FABRIC206LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 30th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jason Sharp The Turning Centre Of A Still World Electronica | Constellation | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th August 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jason Sharp The Turning Centre Of A Still World £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Constellation SKU: CST154LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gemma Ray Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang Electronica | Bronzerat | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th January 2023 £23.00 Select options Gemma Ray Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Bronzerat Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Vince Clarke Songs of Silence Electronica | Mute | 1LP Released 17th November 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vince Clarke Songs of Silence £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mute SKU: STUMM500 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Forest Swords Compassion Electronica | Ninja Tune | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 4th May 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Forest Swords Compassion £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN243X Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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