Intriguing snapshots into the vaults of E GONE, one of our very favourite artists. Shipwrecks and Stray Cats offers rare cuts from the long, long days. Let’s look inside…
‘The Quality Of Uselessness’ shows Harry Lime skulking in streets, time running down as the authorities close in.
‘Earwigs’ smashes banjos with badass big drum beats, like a post-apocalyptic ‘Fucking In The Bushes’. Energy waves shoot up from below the surface as submarines cruise. Dance folk for the well disposed.
‘Hekatomb for Christ’ returns E GONE to Constantinople for one more mission from the man from SMOKEDIVER; one more saber wielding assassin to dispatch in the name of king and country.
‘The Captain Is Sober’ is a freaky remix of an Eastern European kids shows with heavy handed warnings about the dangers of sniffin glue.
‘Chapter 1- Lost Music In An Old World’ sees Nico and Sigur Ros collaborating; emitting creation as entropy folds the world back in on itself. We head into the sweeping post rock tinged middle section of the album…
Harmoniums and banjos usher new born animals into the brightly lit world on ‘Next Passage’, ushering a new age of pastoral music; a Beethoven of psych folk, spreading life into the countryside and painting pictures with sound.
‘Everybody Must Get Throned’ is avant-garde sci-fi from the 60s; monochrome robots milling around the eye line in the factory, getting on with their daily routines. Treadmills trundle. Large riveted doors clang while erratic grabbers grasp at goods on the production line. Some of the robots life expire as batteries run down, factory owners long dead in the offices, cobwebs forming on their unblinking bodies.
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