Artist : Lilacs & Champagne
Album : Danish & Blue
Year : 2013
Genre : Instrumental
Quality : 238kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 40m
Size : 72.65mb
Label : Mexican Summer
Catalognr : MEX 147
Tracklist:
01. Metaphysical Transitions 2:17
02. Sour / Sweet 2:05
03. Le Grand 5:56
04. Better Beware 2:35
05. Alone Again And... 4:11
06. Police Story 2:08
07. Hamburgers & Tangerines 5:48
08. Honest Man 3:02
09. Refractory Period 4:29
10. Danish & Blue 5:21
11. Metaphysical Transitions II 2:28
Releasenotes:
Lilacs & Champagne, the project of Grails' Emil Amos and Alex Hall, is built on
warped samples and scorched guitar solos, creating a playful, psychedelic take
on damaged funk and pop. The duo's 2012 self-titled debut suggested a template
for a new kind of psychotic mood music, and the follow up, Danish & Blue,
manages to be both darker and more ambitious. "Lilacs & Champagne was created to
be a direct tribute to the musical outsiders of the past" says Hall.
Made up of sounds sourced from Scandinavian porn and hyper-obscure b-movies from
the late '60s, Danish & Blue pulls from records other DJs wouldn't touch by
strategy. "We want to twist the knife as far as it can go into sample-based
methodology, by taking pieces of loner music history and empowering them to shed
light on both the pathetic side of human life and its improbable beauty." says
Amos.
Mid-album cut "Hamburgers & Tangerines" is built on moody keys and a
subterranean groove that recalls both sleazy cop movies and cathartic late night
revelations. Danish & Blue is an album that is disinterested in boundaries,
unafraid to pull from every genre imaginable in service of a specific mood: from
a dark lounge slither, to frustrated down-tempo, to wailing proggy guitar rock.
It feels at once like a deeply personal journey through cultural ephemera and
neon-lit samples that are collaged together so seamlessly that they're able to
walk the border between tasteful and tacky with abandon.
It's hard to pull off such a cohesive mood piece from found sources, but Amos
and Hall are so clearly in love with the sampled material that it never feels
anything but natural. Title track "Danish & Blue" is all digital chaos and
hyper-compressed drums, with the duo creating machine funk from vintage synth
samples and expertly placed streaks of guitar. It's knowing but visceral,
tongue-in-cheek but dead serious about mining unexpected and disparate places
for golden moments. On the too-brief "Sour/Sweet," the duo crafts low-key beauty
from stuttered drums and a distant, looped vocal sample that slowly teases out
over warm vinyl crackle and piano. You feel like it should last forever.
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