a r t i s t : Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
t i t l e : Lost In Reflections
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Release The Bats
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : nov/2008
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 71,1 MB
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DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS - LOST IN REFLECTIONS LP +
7" (RTB#42)
As Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Gothenburg based
composer and sound artist Thomas Ekelund has delved into a
time-consuming investigation of the complex, multi-faceted
world of solitude and introspective darkness. His pallet is
strictly greyscale, but the tones he uses are deeper, more
honest and more heartfelt than anything else out there.
╗Lost in Reflections½ is Dead Letters Spell Out Dead WordsÆ
fourth main album and his definite masterpiece so far. Here,
hurt is transformed into absolute beauty. And here, dampened
drones make pop art.
This, in the words of Thomas Ekelund himself, is how the album
came about:
"Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with Borderline
Personality Disorder, a both vile and many-faced disease that
inevitably drapes every aspect of life in shadows that range
from shades of grey to coal black. It causes a polarity of
mind, everything is either or, never in between. It makes you
feel isolated and alone even in the most crowded rooms. Slowly
this imagined isolation becomes a real isolation. You do not
allow anyone inside the carefully constructed walls, built
stone by stone by a mind so completely preoccupied with guilt
and shame that you in fact become unhuman (sic). An empty
shell containing oozing, black bile and nothing else. You
become the disease.
I never look into mirrors unless it's absolutely necessary.
Because I don't see the reflection of man, I see a specter, a
phantasm, a distorted human-like figure to which I can't
relate. I never look into the eyes of anyone I talk to because
I am terrified that they will see the same apparition. I try
to achieve invisibility, but in lack of that I hide my true
appearance behind meticulously molded masks.
Eighteen months ago, ╗Lost in Reflections½ was already half a
year old. Still it deals with the above mentioned disease and
some of the aspects of it. Its strange how the mind can be so
aware and unaware at the same time.
Now it's two years later. And though I in some ways have a
better grasp of my ailment I am nowhere near being rid of it.
Most of the time I feel suspended, as if I was waiting for
some great revelation of thruth, a stroke of magic that will
transform me into someone like you. The person you see in the
mirror. A human.
It has taken me two years to come to terms with this album.
It's in many ways my most accessible work to date, but in
other ways my most difficult and demanding. I can't listen to
it objectively. In fact I have a hard time listening to it at
all."
Tracklist: A. This Room Seems Empty Without You, B. Lost &
Losing, C1. What I WouldnÆt Give To Feel Alive, C2. Crowded
Rooms, In Empty Streets, C3. What Stays And What Fades Away,
D. Himmelschreibenden Herzen
Split release with iDEAL, When Skies Are Grey and Fang Bomb.
PRESSING INFO!
500 made. Pro-printed sleeves with 5mm spine, printed insides
and black innersleeves. Heavy weight vinyl.
http://www.releasethebats.com/
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01-This Room Seems Empty Without You [05:37]
02-Lost & Losing [06:57]
03-What I WouldnÆt Give To Feel Alive [06:35]
04-Crowded Rooms, In Empty Streets / What Stays And What [14:06]
Fades Away
05-Himmelschreibenden Herzen [18:56]
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52:11 min