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Artist......: Darkstar
Album.......: Civic Jams
Label.......: Warp Records
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: WARPCD312
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-06-26
Str.date....: 2020-06-19
Quality.....: 718 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://darkstar.ws/
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1. Forest 3:26
2. Jam 3:30
3. 1001 4:49
4. 30 (Feat. Laura Groves) 3:08
5. Wolf 5:29
6. Loon 4:10
7. Tuesday 4:44
8. Text 5:25
9. Blurred 2:47
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\ / ________ Runtime 37:28
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,: For a long time, tackling society and politics in an agonistic :,
: way has been the preserve of the singer-songwriter, often :
:' confined within the ill-defined genre of folk music. Lately, ':
,: though, electronic music composers and producers have been :,
: picking up the task, making albums that deal with the :
:' difficulties of living in the contemporary era, mixing personal ':
,: and political. Darkstar make no exception. On their first album :,
: after a 5-year silence, which bears the manifesto title Civic :
:' Jams, Aiden Whalley and James Young prophetically explore the ':
,: isolation and incommunicability of the present club scene, the :,
: need for safe spaces, and the bewilderment caused by the :
:' shutdown of said communal places. ':
,: :,
: But thereÆs little in the way of doom or dark descents into :
:' endless abysses on Civic Jams. The repetitive sound structure ':
,: thatÆs a common thread through these nine tracks, their :,
: aesthetics drawing heavily upon the so-called ôhardcore :
:' continuumö, mirrors the input-bombing we are constantly ':
,: submitted to, and the attendant impossibility of retaining :,
: focus. ôWeÆve tried to look at the juxtaposition of being :
:' comfortable in an often-claustrophobic era of unrest both ':
,: politically and culturally,ö the band explain, and they do so by :,
: whispering in the listenersÆ ear over shoegazey walls of sound :
:' and field recordings. This is the sound of a band waiting for ':
,: the sun to come up again, and again, and again. :,
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