The new kaleidoscopic sound of Stephen Wilkinson (aka Bibio), where pastoral meets digital in a summery haze.

Following on from ‘Ambivalence Avenue’ and 2011’s ‘Mind Bokeh’

“Off kilter pop songs that sound like nothing else.” – The Times

“A gloriously mind bending collection” – The Fly

Bibio’s music takes a fresh turn to create ‘Silver Wilkinson’, a record where the pastoral and the digital, the playful and the mournful, sit neatly alongside one another, with a renewed focus on the organic and live.

Lead single ‘À tout à l’heure’ is a blast of summery fresh air, having been recorded in Bibio’s garden using shears and watering cans as instruments. Stephen explains: “Although the majority of my tracks get started and finished in my studio, I occasionally take things outside where I\’ve found the process and the result to be refreshing. The recording of ’À tout à l’heure’ started out in my garden on a gorgeous sunny day when it felt morally wrong to be hidden away indoors.”

Stephen continues: “If there was a preconceived idea before this album started coming together, it was a fairly vague one: to focus more on an organic and live sound and to record more guitar and other live instrumentation. After working long and hard on an album, however, I crave change… like you might crave spring after winter. I love seasonal change, it affects me a lot. I like the idea of comparing albums to seasons – they stand alone yet are part of a bigger story. They complement each other. So this album, to an extent, started out with the desire for a new \’season\’, contrasting somewhat with the previous.”

For fans of Toro Y Moi, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches, Gold Panda, Caribou, Boards Of Canada, Four Tet, Washed Out, Neon Indian.