Artist : Message To Bears
Album : Carved From Tides
Year : 2016
Genre : Instrumental
Quality : 266kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 39m
Size : 78.63mb
Label : self-release
Tracklist:
01. Never Be 6:24
02. Blossom 3:52
03. Breath 3:11
04. Spin Float (feat. Gemma Alexander) 4:34
05. They Ran 4:28
06. Beneath Our Snow 3:23
07. I'll Lead You There (feat. Will Samson) 3:44
08. When You're Gone 5:20
09. Hold On 4:34
Releasenotes:
''On Message To Bears' fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all
caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every
fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1 July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew
the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and
music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single I'll Lead You There is
exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn't be out of
place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folky textures are soon
penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator Will Samson lends his
tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends
it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP.'
'Jerome's love of ambient music is highlighted in the opener Never Be. It's a
cinematic start to the album, replete with sweeping synths and strings. The
muffled piano lends some rhythmic shape to its openness. It ends tempestuously,
with thunderous bass raging against the dying synths as it refuses to go gently
into the night.'
Of his mentality when creating Carved From Tides Jerome says:
"The album is supposed to reflect a transitional period in one's life,
referencing change in circumstances, decisions, relationships with others and
evolution as an individual, whether subtle or not, which thereby influences
where you are now, and realising wherever you are now is ok, and that you are in
a constant state of flux. When writing it, I was going through what felt like a
very transitional period myself, and I guess this was my way of processing it."
'Composed, recorded and produced between both his home and studio in North-East
London over the past year, Carved From Tides is Jerome's most sophisticated work
yet. The title refers to the capacity of something fluid and transitional to be
able to affect and mould what appears to be solid and stable over time. It is
through the fluidness of Jerome's approach - in not pigeonholing instruments
with expectations of what sort of music they should make - that Jerome achieves
just this. The fluidity of music itself is the tide that he carves his
masterwork from. And the success he achieves here is solid indeed.'
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