Lilacs & Champagne // Fantasy World LP / CD

Lilacs & Champagne // Fantasy World LP / CD

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スウェーデンのレフトフィールド・ヒップホップデュオLilacs & Champagneが、2024年7月にアメリカ・NYのTemporary Residence Ltd.からリリースしたアルバムです。

レフトフィールド・ヒップホップ14曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Temporary Residence Ltd. releases available at Tobira.

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Available on 12" black vinyl or CD in digipack.

Tracklist:

1. Ill Gotten Gains 02:48
2. Rude Dream 03:12
3. Fantasy Land 02:18
4. Melissa 02:36
5. Betraying Yourself 02:44
6. Ready Rubbed Blue 02:03
7. Evil Has No Boundaries 02:41
8. No More Sherry 02:58
9. Gentle Man 02:30
10. Leprotic Phantasies 02:05
11. 144 York Way 02:39
12. Last Frontier 02:15
13. Dr. Why 03:13
14. Ordinary Man 04:08

Temporary Residence Ltd.:

"Nearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs and Champagne picks up right where that record, Midnight Features Vol. 2: Made Flesh, left off. With bizarre excursions into pillowy, sentimental made-for-TV music – and children's choirs incanting the blackest dread-filled music the band has conjured to date – Fantasy World is both transcendent and traumatic.

Despite sharing two founding members of Grails (multi-instrumentalists Emil Amos and Alex Hall) Fantasy World only peripherally resembles their core group. Its most somber tracks, such as “Dr. Why” and “Last Frontier,” approach the morbid loneliness of the beloved Grails series, Black Tar Prophecies. But Lilacs & Champagne have exaggerated their early record's implications and accelerated their mercurial rearranging of music history by deftly incorporating live instrumentation and samples with equal amounts of deference and disregard.

Previously existing primarily in a realm adjacent to instrumental hip-hop (J Dilla, Clams Casino, Madlib), Fantasy World exposes Lilacs & Champagne’s deeper lineage as playful tape-collage culture jammers in the vein of legendary sound satirists, Negativland and Severed Heads. It embraces the effect of a child entering a dollar store: the immediate euphoria felt upon discovering the seemingly endless aisles piled impossibly high with novelty toys, utensils, party decorations, and toiletries eventually gives way to the overwhelming realization that they’re actually just a tourist in a perilous mountain of colorful garbage. From those mountains, Lilacs & Champagne mold monuments to curiosity and confusion. "

Artist : Lilacs & Champagne

Label : Temporary Residence Ltd. 

CAT No : TRR252cd

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スウェーデンのレフトフィールド・ヒップホップデュオLilacs & Champagneが、2024年7月にアメリカ・NYのTemporary Residence Ltd.からリリースしたアルバムです。

レフトフィールド・ヒップホップ14曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Temporary Residence Ltd. releases available at Tobira.

-------------------------------------------

Available on 12" black vinyl or CD in digipack.

Tracklist:

1. Ill Gotten Gains 02:48
2. Rude Dream 03:12
3. Fantasy Land 02:18
4. Melissa 02:36
5. Betraying Yourself 02:44
6. Ready Rubbed Blue 02:03
7. Evil Has No Boundaries 02:41
8. No More Sherry 02:58
9. Gentle Man 02:30
10. Leprotic Phantasies 02:05
11. 144 York Way 02:39
12. Last Frontier 02:15
13. Dr. Why 03:13
14. Ordinary Man 04:08

Temporary Residence Ltd.:

"Nearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs and Champagne picks up right where that record, Midnight Features Vol. 2: Made Flesh, left off. With bizarre excursions into pillowy, sentimental made-for-TV music – and children's choirs incanting the blackest dread-filled music the band has conjured to date – Fantasy World is both transcendent and traumatic.

Despite sharing two founding members of Grails (multi-instrumentalists Emil Amos and Alex Hall) Fantasy World only peripherally resembles their core group. Its most somber tracks, such as “Dr. Why” and “Last Frontier,” approach the morbid loneliness of the beloved Grails series, Black Tar Prophecies. But Lilacs & Champagne have exaggerated their early record's implications and accelerated their mercurial rearranging of music history by deftly incorporating live instrumentation and samples with equal amounts of deference and disregard.

Previously existing primarily in a realm adjacent to instrumental hip-hop (J Dilla, Clams Casino, Madlib), Fantasy World exposes Lilacs & Champagne’s deeper lineage as playful tape-collage culture jammers in the vein of legendary sound satirists, Negativland and Severed Heads. It embraces the effect of a child entering a dollar store: the immediate euphoria felt upon discovering the seemingly endless aisles piled impossibly high with novelty toys, utensils, party decorations, and toiletries eventually gives way to the overwhelming realization that they’re actually just a tourist in a perilous mountain of colorful garbage. From those mountains, Lilacs & Champagne mold monuments to curiosity and confusion. "

Artist : Lilacs & Champagne

Label : Temporary Residence Ltd. 

CAT No : TRR252cd