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01. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - This Invisible Blood
02. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Semi-Important Parasites
03. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Pure Sun
04. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Coffin Fogbound
05. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - English Estate
06. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - The Invisible Lodger
07. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Unwriten Book
08. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Hole In My Memory
09. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - All Fall Down
10. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Clerks
11. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - The Invisible Lodger Part Two
12. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Robot Dialogue
13. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Spindle World
14. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Idiot Box
15. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - The Wrong Idol
16. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Invisible Lodger Part 3
17. VARIOUS PRODUCTION & GERRY MITCHELL - Laughably Urbane
ARTIST
TITLE
The Invisible Lodger
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
FIRE 116CD FIRE 116CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/8/2009

This is Fire Records' 2008 release of a unique collaboration between Various Production and South London wordsmith Gerry Mitchell. Various Production are the mysterious duo carving out new genres with every release. Astoundingly productive, they've produced remixes for Ian Brown, Thom Yorke, Cat Power and Dirty Three amongst others. The Invisible Lodger is a shockingly new experiment of spoken word electronica, somewhat like a less-rigid Massive Attack fronted by a Mark E Smith gifted at imagery and not just wordplay. Dreamy/nightmare machine-waltzes paint sonic scenes for a narrator deconstructing the city walls around him, with collective delusions disturbing his consciousness. Scattered drones, electronic-dub, found samples and waltz-folk music envelope and elaborate the internal dialogue, a modern Notes From Underground, of a Scottish Dostoevsky. With elements of 1984 paranoia, the collaborators weave a massive range of sounds, with Gerry's urban isolation and unflinching view of himself and his surroundings; an industrial, hypnotic, spoken-word electronica. His images are unique and from a heightened sensitivity to his powerlessness; he is invisible, out of the scheme, standing still watching the consumer legions, urban fashionistas and faux-mo sapiens of the capital chase the neon colors and recycled "creations" projected on cold metal and concrete. The album's bleakness is also a pure clean wind, equally soothing and unnerving. Gerry's persona isn't a cheery one, and not for the faint-hearted. The Invisible Lodger is an original and uncompromising modern soundtrack to Mr Mitchell's talented verse and strong imagery.