Описание
Ian William Craig – Thresholder [New Vinyl]
Artist: Ian William Craig
Title: Thresholder
Format: Vinyl
UPC: 600116133212
Condition: New
Release Date: 2018
Record Label: Fat Cat
Album Tracks
DISC 1:
1. Elided
2. Some Absolute Means
3. TC-377 Poem
4. Mass Noun
5. Idea For Contradiction 1
DISC 2:
1. And Therefore the Moonlight
2. The Last Westbrook Lament
3. Discovered In Flat
4. Sfumato
5. Idea For Contradiction 2
6. More Words For Mistake
Eighteen months on from his last new release, Vancouver-based singer / composer Ian William Craig returns to FatCat with an (album-length) EPof eleven brand new tracks. Entitled Thresholder, the record sees Craig return towards the smudged and scoured beauty of his 2016 opus, Centres, a record which was universally acclaimed, making many end-of-year lists – including the likes of Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Wire, The Quie-tus, The 405 and Drowned In Sound. For Craig the focus of the album was a great boundlessness of space, the sound of the big bang, the spookiness of the quantum world, and vacillations of different kinds ofcon-flicting time. Besides as the often-quoted William Basinski reference point, the music here recalls the visceral media-decay of early ‘00s operators like Fennesz, Belong, Desormais, Philip Jeck or Pimmon. “Idea for Contradiction 2”Is like a massively over-driven or sandpaper-scoured version of Brian Eno’s “An Ending”or some shredded Colin Stetson stem. The ending of“And Therefore the Moonlight” – is reminiscent of Sigur Ros (who are fans and recently invited Ian to play their Nor?urogNi?ur festival in Reykjavik); while “Sfumato” exists in the same dimension as The Caretaker’s haunted ballroom with its reverb-drenched and occluded distant vocals.
