View basket “Electronic Progress” 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 Caravan Palace Caravan Palace Electronica | MVKA | 180g, 2LP Released 24th March 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Caravan Palace Caravan Palace £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: MVKA SKU: 0190296979668 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 24th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anz All Hours Electronica | Ninja Tune | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 5th November 2021 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anz All Hours £13.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN12588 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tycho Simulcast Electronica | Ninja Tune | 180g, 1LP Released 28th February 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tycho Simulcast £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN260 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Until The Ribbon Breaks A Lesson Unlearnt Electronica | 1405 Records | 1LP Released 15th June 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Until The Ribbon Breaks A Lesson Unlearnt £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: 1405 Records SKU: UTRBALU01V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Armin Van Buuren Communication 1-3 Electronica | Music On Vinyl | 12", Single Released 31st May 2024 £23.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Armin Van Buuren Communication 1-3 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOV12084C Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Flying Lotus Youre Dead Electronica | Warp | 180g, 4LP, Includes Download Code Released 2nd October 2014 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Flying Lotus Youre Dead £45.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP256X Formats: 180g, 4LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Konami Kukeiha Club Castlevania (Original Game Soundtrack) Electronica | Mondo | 10", 1LP Released 16th September 2016 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Konami Kukeiha Club Castlevania (Original Game Soundtrack) £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mondo SKU: MOND71 Formats: 10", 1LP Released Date: 16th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prodigy, The World’s on Fire (Live at Milton Keynes Bowl) (2020 re-master) Electronica | Cooking Vinyl | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 30th October 2020 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Prodigy, The World’s on Fire (Live at Milton Keynes Bowl) (2020 re-master) £27.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: HOSPLP4 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Purple Disco Machine Something On My Mind Electronica | Sony | 12", Single Released 20th October 2023 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Purple Disco Machine Something On My Mind £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sony SKU: 19658848481 Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 20th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Supersilent 11 Electronica | Rune Grammofon | 1LP Released 26th March 2021 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Supersilent 11 £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: nn220825 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th March 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Electronica Start again
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