Lunch_Money_Life-Immersion_Chamber-WEB-2020-BEAMS

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2020-04-03

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ARTIST.....:    Lunch Money Life
TITLE......:    Immersion Chamber
LABEL......:    Scenic Route
GENRE......:    Electronic
RIP DATE...:    2020-04-03
RETAIL DATE:    2020-04-02
RUNTIME....:    29:37
SIZE.......:    69,81  MB
QUALITY....:    320Kbps 44.1kHz
ENCODER/CODEC:  LAME - MP3 (MPEG-2 AUDIO LAYER 3)
URL........:    https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Lunch_Money_Life_Immersion_Chamber?id=Bttfmweydbwud5gir4ga42dfwr4

Track List:

01. God Complex                                       2:47
02. Lincoln                                           4:45
03. Maddison Lee Outro                                1:22
04. Superego                                          4:17
05. Crewcut                                           2:43
06. Living3000                                        2:23
07. Informant                                         2:05
08. Truth Serum                                       4:10
09. Pharisees                                         5:05

Release Notes:

Highly anticipated album from the London collective
Lunch Money Life. Immersion Chamber is an electronica
album soaked in melancholy and introspection. Simon
Tucker reviews.

Born out of a series of rehearsals within East LondonÆs
All Saints Haggerton church and following on from their
celebrated 2019 Boiler Room set, Lunch Money LifeÆs
Immersion Chamber is the sound of a myriad disparate
influences coalescing into a unified and impressive
whole which follows in the footsteps of bands such as
The Avalanches, Fold, DJ Shadow and AIM.

Immersion ChamberÆs themes seem to focus on a sort of
beauty that can be found in melancholy and
introspection. ThereÆs only a few moments where the band
tip their gaze towards a dancefloor, like on the jazz
soaked Living3000, but even then there is a sense of
foreboding and unease within its scattershot rhythms and
menacing synths and whilst overall the album doesnÆt
seem to dwell on the natural highs found in electronic
music its sheer wealth of stylistic twists and turns
keep you uplifted and progressing with a sense of
continuous propulsion.

Listen to the way that Truth Serum struts forward
starting with a sense of heavy foreboding before it
starts to swing ever so wildly, or the dusky
smoke-fulled jazz of opener God Complex which is one of
the best audio interpretations of sunset this writer has
ever heard as it manages to capture the beauty of dusk
whilst not shying away from the knowledge that soon
around us all will be dark..and then the fun can begin.

Immersion ChamberÆs contradictions are its strongest
asset and the band Stewart Hughes (drums) Sean Keating
(guitar) Luke Mills-Pettigrew (bass) Jack Martin
(electronics/trombone) Spencer Martin
(electronics/saxophone) manage to balance the various
musical and thematic threads wonderfully allowing each
other to take centre stage at exactly the right time
which shows us that there is apparently no ego within
the band. There is certainly an echo of music created in
the 90s which may have aided my sense of familiarity to
the sound of Immersion Chamber but this is no bad thing
as the band never once fall too far into the regressive
and keep one toe in the future for the largest part of
the albums running time.

A good album that warrants many a listen, Lunch Money
Life have created a work that manages to fit within the
currently thriving worlds of both Jazz and ElectronicaàI
look forward to hearing where they go to next.

https://lunchmoneylife.bandcamp.com/

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