The World Is A Bell Leaf Library, The SKU: WIALP080 Barcode: 5057805487685 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Where It's At Is Where You Are Released Date: 25th October 2019 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The record is an ambitious and expansive update of their warm, hypnotic drone-pop encompassing gently pulsing electronics, chiming guitars, minimalist piano, acoustic and synthesised drones, noise, improv and intricate brass and string arrangements, all in the service of the band’s most assured and experimental songwriting yet. Two years in the making it features guest contributions from (amongst others) celebrated singer Ed Dowie, noise group Far Rainbow, fellow space-pop travellers Firestations and the string quartet Iskra Strings. It draws on all aspects of the band’s work so far, from indie guitar pop to ambient atmospherics, via surging rhythms and layered, melancholic vocals. This is the band’s second album (seventh if you count the various remix, side-project and short run CDR and tape releases they have put out over the last few years), and is the official follow up to 2015’s debut Daylight Versions (5* The Guardian). It begins with ‘In Doors And Out Through Windows’, a minimal piano and vibraphone incantation in 7/4, with shades of Dot and Loops-era Stereolab, their summery strum replaced here with twilit, unsettling repetition and melancholy brass swells. First single ‘Hissing Waves’ is the most pop the band have ever sounded, its skipping Insides-esque electronics and looping verses pulling the listener back to daylight and the disorienting “transparent spaces” of the city. ‘Patience’ (featuring guest vocals by Ed Dowie) is the closest the band come to the sound of ‘Daylight Versions’, cresting on waves of guitars and an insistent synth arpeggio. Elsewhere we find the title track’s pointillist strings (arranged by the band’s saxophonist Daniel Fordham), hypnotic vocal rituals on noise/improv detour ‘Bodies Carried Off By Bees’ (featuring Far Rainbow) and the Yo La Tengo-meet-Section 25 repetitions of ‘An Endless’, its bright guitar arpeggios and billowing synths unfurling across ten minutes of glorious repetition. Titled after a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote (“The world is a bell that is cracked, it clatters but does not ring out clearly”) the album turns its attention away from the coastal obsessions of ‘Daylight Versions’ to more surreal and atmospheric contemplations. The album reaches its end with the fittingly grandiose ‘Paper Boats On Black Ink Lake’. The radio unfriendly (at nearly 20 minutes long) track drifts in on sleepwalk-slow guitars, recalling Earth at their most serene, while Kate Gibson and Melinda Bronstein’s vocals float over a bed of strings that could be Robert Kirby scoring Low’s Secret Name. The World Is A Bell is an album of dense and unhurried songs, rich in sonic detail and ambitious in scope, its music simultaneously intimate and epic. Guitarist and lyricist Matt says, “We wanted to create something that was completely its own thing, that was in no hurry to get anywhere and that contained large expanses for listeners to get lost in. For fans of Insides, Stereolab, Low, Bark Psychosis, Yo La Tengo, Seefeel, Julia Holter. Artist Leaf Library, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Where It's At Is Where You Are Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings In Doors And Out Through Windows Hissing Waves Patience Larches Eat Moths The World Is A Bell Bright Seas Bodies Carried Off By Bees An Endless More Than Half Asleep Paper Boats On Black Ink Lake Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Leaf Library, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Leaf Library, The Library Music Volume One Rock And Pop | Where It's At Is Where You Are | 2LP Released 28th October 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leaf Library, The Library Music Volume One £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Where It's At Is Where You Are SKU: WIA109LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Michael Jackson Off The Wall – Picture Disc Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 24th August 2018 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Jackson Off The Wall – Picture Disc £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 19075866411 Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 24th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ed Sheeran Loose Change Rock And Pop | Atlantic | 1LP Released 26th February 2016 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ed Sheeran Loose Change £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Atlantic SKU: 0825646052455 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Grumbling Fur Furfour Rock And Pop | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th September 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grumbling Fur Furfour £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL412LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) Demolished Thoughts Rock And Pop | Matador | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 18th May 2011 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) Demolished Thoughts £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Matador SKU: OLE9531 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th May 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Warhaus We Fucked A Flame Into Being Rock And Pop | PIAS | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 2nd September 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Warhaus We Fucked A Flame Into Being £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASR900LPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suede The Insatiable Ones Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | DVD Released 12th April 2019 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suede The Insatiable Ones £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538465136 Formats: DVD Released Date: 12th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wesley Gonzalez Wax Limousine Rock And Pop | Moshi Moshi | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th March 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wesley Gonzalez Wax Limousine £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP115 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fall, The This Nations Saving Grace Rock And Pop | Beggars Banquet | 1LP Released 10th June 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fall, The This Nations Saving Grace £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Beggars Banquet SKU: BBQLP2134 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sparks Exotic Creatures Of The Deep Rock And Pop | Lil Beethoven Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th May 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sparks Exotic Creatures Of The Deep £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Lil Beethoven Records SKU: LBRV111 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Starset Divisions Rock And Pop | Fearless | 2LP Released 25th October 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Starset Divisions £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fearless SKU: 7211955 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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