Artist: Nathan Fake
Title: Hard Islands
Label: Border Community
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 194kbit av.
Time: 00:33:01
Size: 49.21 mb
Rip Date: 2009-03-14
Str Date: 2009-05-18
1. The Turtle 6:18
2. Basic Mountain 6:13
3. Castle Rising 8:57
4. The Curlew 1:15
5. Narrier 3:32
6. Fentiger 6:46
Release Notes:
Hard Islands might sound like the title of a crypto-homosexual
Sky 3 reality show presented by Steve McFadden or whoever, but
it's actually the name of the new album from Nathan Fake. The
follow-up to his 2006 debut Drowning In A Sea of Love (not so
hot at this titling business, is he?), Hard Islands will be
released on James Holden's Border Community label on May 18th.
This is 6 Track Sampler of it.
Still only 21 years of age, Nathan shot to fame while still
his in his teens, thanks to a run of exuberantly trancey
singles - 'Outhouse', 'Adamedge' and 'The Sky Was Pink'
(remixed by Holden into arguable one of the best dance tunes
ever) - and then his disarmingly downbeat album, which found
him dropping the driving 4x4 rhythms in favour of a more
shoegazy, pastoral electronica and post-rock sound. It was OK,
but we'd been hoping for something...more.
Hard Islands finds the big-haired youngster reconnecting with
the dancefloor, with his debt to the 90s output of Warp and
Rephlex more pronounced than ever before. It's a tougher,
more techno-oriented affair, recalling his wonderfully tricksy
2005 EP for Traum, Dinamo. This shift back to a more robust,
club-friendly style doubtless has as a lot to do with
location: Drowning in A Sea of Love was put together in his
family home in the Norfolk village of Necton, but now he's
London-based, working out of a home studio in Hackney.