View Cart You cannot add that amount to the basket — we have 1 in stock and you already have 1 in your basket. View basket “11” has been added to your basket. 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 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Electronica | Real World | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sidestepper Supernatural Love £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Real World SKU: LPRW211 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ultraísta Ordinary Boy – The Remixes Electronica | Partisan Records | 12", Single Released 6th November 2020 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ultraísta Ordinary Boy – The Remixes £11.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF1265-1 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 6th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Daft Punk Human After All Electronica | Virgin Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th March 2005 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Daft Punk Human After All £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Virgin Records SKU: V2996 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th March 2005 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DJ Shadow Live In Manchester: The Mountain Has Fallen Tour Electronica | Mass Appeal Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 14th December 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DJ Shadow Live In Manchester: The Mountain Has Fallen Tour £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mass Appeal Records SKU: MSAP0057LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 14th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Squarepusher Dostrotime Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 1st March 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Squarepusher Dostrotime £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP366 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Nettwerk | 1LP Released 26th October 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Nettwerk SKU: 0067003001113 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Faten Kanaan A Mythology of Circles Electronica | Fire Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th November 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Faten Kanaan A Mythology of Circles £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP608 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tomorrowland Tomorrowland 2024 – Life – Official Compilation Electronica | Tomorrowland Music | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 7th June 2024 £30.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Tomorrowland Tomorrowland 2024 – Life – Official Compilation £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Tomorrowland Music SKU: 4003401518 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 7th June 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thomas Leer & Robert Rental The Bridge Electronica | Mute | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th May 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thomas Leer & Robert Rental The Bridge £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mute SKU: BRIDGE1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DAF Das Ist DAF Electronica | Gronland | 5LP Released 22nd September 2017 £100.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DAF Das Ist DAF £100.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Gronland SKU: LPGRON175 Formats: 5LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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