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LLI 018LP
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"North London's midnight man tumbles out his treehouse to deliver twelve potions of minor healing in Iron Day, his questing, soul-salvaging songbook. Brimming with majesty and maraud in equal parts, Genghis Cohn synthesizes trad. English folk and woe with surrealist dream sequences on this debut long-player. A romance of two hedgehogs, devotional bone temples, broken shadows and sausage kings, GC conjures Brent Hayward strolling through the silver birch and presents, in a warmly recognizable form, a grand slab of folk music that challenges its ancient rewards. Previous acquaintance with GC's lean, amorphous strain of experimental home recordings may encounter a menacing apprehension whilst trying to settle in the splendor of Iron Day, unnerved by its posture and the anticipation of songs dissolving or amalgamating in rust and gob at any moment. Still minimalist and direct, but delivered by an altogether different jester, songwriting that has featured in many previous works is smithed into fine, well-wrought suites that build and blend through paced, tempered sequencing and playful, intricate storytelling. Amidst cavernous inner-dialogue and brilliant, contorted pastoral sequences, GC's guitar (reported to be over 100 years old!?) laps and thrashes alongside accompaniments of Lauren Collier's aching violin, a lethargic harmonica and emphatic hand-percussion that drifts in and then out. A dynamic, earthy collection that places future barn-stormers like 'Underneath The Oak' and the gentle blaze of 'Onion' in cadence with the doom-stricken, ghostly slides as on 'Misunderstood' and 'Secrets,' all recorded in dazzling clarity that captures the cascading instrumentation as clearly as the settled, tormented humor of GC's blues. Indispensable candlemeat and essential, joyous listening for fans of; Davy Graham, The Godz, Leonara Carrington, Smelly Feet, Martin Carthy."
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LLI 008LP
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"A celebration of the ever-expanding and evolving label family, LLI008 comprises an LP, a fifty-odd-page booklet (and eight page photobook and insert), further digital tracks and some web-based stuff contributed by friends new and old from far and wide."
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LLI 007LP
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"Tara Clerkin Trio present their self titled debut LP on Laura Lies In. Similar to that directorial effect of filming at double speed and then slowing down for playback, the record ambles with assurance, expertly paced. Opening with a jovial cacophony before the beatific 'in the room' confidently relieves, washing away any unease with an innately alien familiarity. Coming to with the padded percussive patterns of 'Helenica', taking a moment to remember where you are in this temporal smudge. The serene contemplation of 'Any of these' signals we're homeward with a dependable afterglow, a friend you don't need to thank for a good weekend. A record existing disconnected from the daily getyadowns, a holiday from life, optimism as resistance against mundanity, something extraordinary amongst the ordinary, positively grey. Tara Clerkin Trio create a variety of whimsical soundscapes. The group cover a lot of sonic territory here -- acid jazz, off-kilter psych-pop, avant-garde songcraft and atmospheric dub-wise experiments in the African Head Charge mold can all be found across these seven tracks. All styles are approached with a quiet and disarming guile which are reminiscent of Micachu And The Shapes."
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LLI 005EP
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"ST/NE is an alter ego and artist name of Stine Janvin, giving life to a satirical pop experiment combining field recordings, vocal samples and electronic production. ME/WE pulls inspiration from late night bar-chat philosophy, Muhammad Ali's army induction refusal, #metoo-stories and a broken Stockhausen record materialising in 4 tracks of vocal sirenage, fractured techno and mutant trap. Manipulated and dehumanised as it is, the vocals trace a thread throughout, tying this collection of contrasts together and resulting in a singular, cohesive and compelling EP."
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LLI 004EP
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"Aka Jan Katsma of Bunker associates Syncom Data, stepping out with his first full solo release in three years. Six feverish, dubwise synth excursions, rumbling with restrained power; with passages as body-rocking as recent Katsma/SD contributions to mixtapes by Dettmann and Stingray, but always verging on acid disintegration."
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