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 Nia Archives Silence Is Loud Electronica | Island | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th April 2024 £24.00 Select options Nia Archives Silence Is Loud £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Island Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Apparat LP5 Electronica | Mute | 1LP Released 22nd March 2019 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Apparat LP5 £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mute SKU: STUMM436 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elkka DJ Friendly Electronica | Ninja Tune | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 27th October 2023 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elkka DJ Friendly £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN12657 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 27th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975 Electronica | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 21st July 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Finders Keepers SKU: FKR082LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blockhead Downtown Science Electronica | Ninja Tune | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blockhead Downtown Science £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN113C Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mariusz Duda Claustrophobic Universe Electronica | Kscope | 1LP Released 12th August 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mariusz Duda Claustrophobic Universe £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kscope SKU: KSCOPE1166 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place Electronica | Scripted Realities | 2LP Released 19th June 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Scripted Realities SKU: SCREALLPX002 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Let’s Turn It Into Sound Electronica | Ghostly | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th August 2022 £22.00 - £24.00 Select options Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Let’s Turn It Into Sound £22.00 - £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghostly Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th August 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Kamaal Williams Wu Hen Electronica | Black Focus | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th July 2020 £19.00 Select options Kamaal Williams Wu Hen £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Black Focus Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th July 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Foodman Yasuragi Land Electronica | Hyperdub | 1LP Released 27th August 2021 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Foodman Yasuragi Land £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Hyperdub SKU: HDBLP058 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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