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This is a sealed 3xLP of the OST In Fabric, Limited to 1500 and super sold out. 
Limited edition vinyl release of the original Cavern Of Anti-Matter score for Peter Strickland’s horror film In Fabric. Six sides of vinyl in a full colour Julian House designed sleeve with download card. The first 1500 copies come housed inside a hand-stamped paper bag, sold exclusively via Duophonic UHF Disks mailorder and Independent record shops.

Interviewed in The Wire about the soundtrack, Strickland commented: “I was a fan of Stereolab and so much of the music I fell in love with was because of their recommendations whenever they were interviewed. Using Steven Stapleton’s music in my first film indirectly came about from first hearing Nurse With Wound on the joint Crumb Duck release with Stereolab. Stereolab were a whole world, what with their championing of other bands through their Duophonic label. After meeting Tim and talking about film it made complete sense to ask him if he would do something. That was unusual in that I didn’t have any specific project in mind. Tim sent me some very long demos to help me write, he implicitly understood that longer tracks are more conducive to writing. Elements of some of those demos worked their way into 'In Fabric'. It was a luxury to work that way, usually, musicians are only approached after writing”.

3LP plus download

A1. High Street Spasm
A2. The Dress Perspective (demonstration)
A3. January-upon-Thames
A4. An Ambiguous Shopfloor Manoeuvre
A5. Cold Fabric (Transformation)

B1. Inside Luckmoore
B2. Mannequin Metric
B3. Queue Nightfall

C1. The Dress Perspective (Muzak)
C2. Elektro-Modulator 2
C3. Taktron Delay
C4. Cold Fabric (Incantation)
C5. The Mediterranean-upon-Thames
C6. Winter Rhombic
C7. Clutch Assembly Tone

D1. ZinZan’s Avec Moi
D2. Speaks Machine
D3. Terminal Wigwag
D4. Night Fabric
D5. Staverton’s Loss
D6. Elektro-Agitator 2

E1. Terminal Metric
E2. Metric 36
E3. The Retail Idea
E4. The Dress Perspective
E5. Cold Fabric (Descent)
E6. Coven Metric
E7. Taktron Decay
E8. An Ambiguous Shopfloor Manoeuvre (Spanish)

F1. Terminal Wigwag (Bananas)
F2. Perimeter Display
F3. Nocturne-upon-Thames
F4. Transmission Mounting Bolt
F5. EN-54 (Branch Circuit)
F6. Mannequin Mass

Peter Strickland’s film In Fabric was met with almost universal acclaim when it emerged in 2019. The soundtrack, composed by Cavern Of Anti-Matter played no small part in the film’s success, and as such the band’s In Fabric OST is more than deserving of a standalone release.

Cavern Of Anti-Matter LPs tend to be lengthy affairs, but even by their standards the band have spoiled us with In Fabric. The record contains no fewer than thirty-five tracks - and while some are the short scene-setting vignettes you’d expect from a film score, ‘Cold Fabric (Transformation)’ and ‘Queue Nightfall’ both clock in at well over ten minutes.

Whether long or short, all of the pieces have an air of hypnagogic beauty about them that is eerily beautiful. Though the sounds that Cavern Of Anti-Matter use here draw more from the traditions of kosmische and post-rock, the air of cerebral unease that runs through In Fabric owes as much to David Axelrod as it does Ghost Box Records. Stylistically the record often veers towards synthetic drones, but this is far from the only style Cavern Of Anti-Matter take on - there is a shimmering, almost aquatic beauty to pieces such as ‘The Dress Perspective’ while ‘Speaks Machine’ has the same chic library-disco thud one finds in the early work of Tim Gane and Joe Dilworth’s previous group Stereolab.

Cavern Of Anti-Matter prove themselves masters of modern kosmische once more with their score for Peter Strickland’s In Fabric.