View basket “Homemade Ice Cream” has been added to your basket. Embarrassed Landscape Irma Vep SKU: WAAT072LP Barcode: 5055869506755 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Gringo Records Released Date: 3rd April 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Irma Vep is the on-going, evolving main vehicle for polymath musician Edwin Stevens and on Embarrassed Landscape the project has reached a zenith. Primarily recorded in Stevens’s adopted home town of Glasgow over two days with frequent collaborators Ruari Maclean and Andrew Cheetham, Embarrassed Landscape is an album that breathes in a fetid skip full of millennial dread, self-effacing anxiety and doubt before exhaling it as heartbreaking songs and ecstatic abandon. Following a series of limited releases spread out over the course of a decade, recorded in fits and starts around the United Kingdom as the protagonists wanderlust saw fit, Irma Vep’s 4th album proper presents Stevens’s vision in its fullest and most realised form. Built around the skeleton of Stevens’s songwriting and fleshed out with loose, virtuoso playing, it’s a body of work that could have been the anxious songs of an over-thinker but rendered here Embarrassed Landscape revels in a kind of un-selfconscious confidence. Indeed, various tensions throughout the album are constantly revealing. Lyrics are riven with poetic, crushing self-analysis and absurdity only to be performed against a backdrop of trance-rock music skewered with Stevens’s own instantly recognisable guitar playing, a style free and full of fire. Songs wring nuggets of uncanny truth out of prosaic, every day activities while sounding like Rolling Thunder Revue era-Dylan. Songs that seem hewn from some unspeakable personal pain are laced with a disarming streak of black humour, massive, world-ending psych jams that harken to Vibracathedral Orchestra’s wall of sound dissipate into tender songs that deserve to be picked apart and cried to. Tension needs release and here the release needs tension. For example, Opener King Kong is bold in several directions at once. A pummelling trance spurred on by the endlessly enjoyable interplay between drummer Andrew Cheetham’s free jazz-inflected style and Stevens’s barely contained guitar wildness, the music screes for 6 minutes of transportation on its own steam before Stevens’s vocal even comes in. Perhaps the biggest dichotomy at the heart of Embarrassed Landscape is between the unbridled energy of the songs’ performances, their often bold arrangements and the heartbreaking, darkly funny songwriting at their heart. Closing song Canary brings most of these tensions to a sweet end. Within the alternating crescendos of violin and guitar Stevens intones about canaries brushing teeth down sinks, alcohol abuse, ghostly images half-seen through the fug of depression yet saved somehow by the social crutches friends and lovers provide. Embarrassed Landscape feels like the album Irma Vep always threatened to make, by some strange alchemy transforming the anxieties and self-criticisms inherent in the lyrics into a liberation, a letting go, a release from the tensions built up by a life lived full. Artist Irma Vep Genre Rock And Pop Label Gringo Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings King Kong Disaster I Do What I Want Standards The Feeling Is Gone Tears Are The Sweetest Sauce Not Even Purring Canary Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Irma Vep and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Irma Vep No Blues Handshakes Rock And Pop | Faux Discx | 1LP Released 13th January 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Irma Vep No Blues Handshakes £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Faux Discx SKU: FAUX45LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Police, The Outlandos D’amour Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th December 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Police, The Outlandos D’amour £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 3947531 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th December 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Section 25 From The Hip Rock And Pop | Factory | 2LP Released 26th June 2012 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Section 25 From The Hip £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Factory SKU: FACT90 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 26th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ben Watt Hendra Rock And Pop | Unmade Road | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 10th April 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Watt Hendra £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Unmade Road SKU: ROAD001V Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 10th April 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs Rock And Pop | Epitaph | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 13th June 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092747317 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chills, The Soft Bomb Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP Released 6th November 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chills, The Soft Bomb £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP553 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Birthday Party, The Live 81-82 Rock And Pop | 4AD | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 24th July 2013 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Birthday Party, The Live 81-82 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD SKU: CAD9005 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 24th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Graham's picks View Product Quick View Lou Reed New York Rock And Pop | Rhino | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th October 2021 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lou Reed New York £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497843206 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Grateful Dead Terrapin Station Rock And Pop | RBDO 2171 | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th January 2024 £28.00 - £30.00 Select options Grateful Dead Terrapin Station £28.00 - £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RBDO 2171 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th January 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Kinks, The The Kink Kontroversy Rock And Pop | Sanctuary | 1LP Released 9th December 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kinks, The The Kink Kontroversy £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sanctuary SKU: 5414939639715 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th December 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe Cocker The Life Of A Man Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 10th March 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe Cocker The Life Of A Man £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985352671 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 10th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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