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 DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man Now U Do Electronica | Ninja Tune | 12", Single Released 24th November 2023 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man Now U Do £13.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN12642 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 24th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wajatta Don’t Let Get You Down Electronica | Brainfeeder | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th February 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wajatta Don’t Let Get You Down £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Brainfeeder SKU: BF097 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brian Eno Music For Installations Electronica | UMC | 9LP, Box Set Released 1st May 2018 £175.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Brian Eno Music For Installations £175.00 Genre: Electronica Label: UMC SKU: 6724075 Formats: 9LP, Box Set Released Date: 1st May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Good Fuck Good Fuck Electronica | Joyful Noise Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 22nd February 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Good Fuck Good Fuck £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Joyful Noise Recordings SKU: JNR279LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kraftwerk Computerwelt (German Version) RSD Stores Exclusive Electronica | Parlophone | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th October 2020 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kraftwerk Computerwelt (German Version) RSD Stores Exclusive £33.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Parlophone SKU: 0190295272296 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Autechre NTS Session 3 Electronica | Warp | 3LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th August 2018 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Autechre NTS Session 3 £32.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP364-3 Formats: 3LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chase & Status More Than A Lot (Limited Pink & Black Marbled Colour Vinyl) Electronica | RAM Records | 2LP Released 14th October 2022 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chase & Status More Than A Lot (Limited Pink & Black Marbled Colour Vinyl) £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: RAM Records SKU: 4050538827859 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Boards Of Canada Trans Canada Highway Electronica | Warp | 1LP Released 18th November 2013 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Boards Of Canada Trans Canada Highway £11.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WAP200R Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beak KOSMIK MUSIK Electronica | Invada | 10", 1LP Released 23rd September 2022 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beak KOSMIK MUSIK £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Invada SKU: INV260LP Formats: 10", 1LP Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Bleep: 10 Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st May 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Bleep: 10 £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: BLP10LP001 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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