Artist: The Long Lost
Title: The Long Lost
Label: Ninja Tune
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 155kbit av.
Time: 00:44:37
Size: 52.97 mb
Rip Date: 2009-01-30
Str Date: 2009-03-02
1. The Art Of Kissing 2:53
2. Amiss 2:58
3. Sibilance 3:18
4. Overmuch 3:17
5. Past Perfect 5:15
6. Ballroom Dance Club 2:39
7. Siren Song 3:00
8. Colour 3:48
9. Regrets Only 3:52
10. Cat Fancy 2:36
11. Wobegone 2:29
12. Finders Keepers 3:44
13. Domestics 2:30
14. Awash 2:18
Release Notes:
This is more folktronica/experimental but tagger is limited!
"The Long Lost" is the sound of love - on so many levels and
in so many ways that it's hard to list them. Imagine if Nico
had left the Velvet Underground and decided to relocate to
California with Caetano Veloso. And imagine if, once there,
the pair slipped through a time portal whilst high on mescalin
and came round in the late noughties, with the kind of
production twists that would allow. Imagine most of all that
what they made was beautiful, an attempt to write and make a
new popular music about love that was completely sincere,
utterly lacking in guile and full of all the queasy,
wonderful, sometimes awful emotions which overwhelm us in
those times.
From opening single "The Art of Kissing," the mood is set.
Acoustic guitar, brushed drums, Laura on lead vocals, Alfred
backing up on choruses. It's a pitch perfect template from
which the group expand into edges of psychedelia
("Sibilance"), ribbons of bass clarinet ("Overmuch"), epic
'40s film score ("Ballroom Dance Club" - see below for its
significance! - and "Siren Song"), bass simplicity ("Colour"),
feline fantasy ("Cat Fancy"), music box melancholia "Finders
Keepers"), nursery rhyme romance ("Domestics") and on and on.
It's a flexible format, held together by the simplicity and
beauty of Laura Darlington's voice - uninflected, almost
matter of fact, but full of a strange kind of magic.
The Long Lost consists of high-school-sweethearts turned
husband-&-wife Alfred (a.k.a. Daedelus) and Laura Darlington.
Both hail from Santa Monica, California, where they met in the
high school orchestra - he on double-bass and she on flute -
and became partners in the ballroom dance club.
After 4 years apart, they formed The Long Lost during a
renewed courtship in 1998. In contrast to the
avant-electronics and hip-hop aesthetics of Alfred's music as
Daedelus, The Long Lost is a union of two songwriters &
producers with a penchant for sad sounds and delicate,
electro-acoustic melodies. These two hopeless romantics make
psychedelic lullabies for lovers and the lovelorn.
A fascinating and utterly individual project, The Long Lost
take the subject of love away from the cliches and hackneyed
wailing of the mainstream and reconnect it to those strange
and uncontrollable emotions we're all so in thrall to.