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LAKE RUTH Actual Entity UK LP Saint Etienne Stereolab Kate Bush Paisley Psych
Sold Date:
December 28, 2017
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December 27, 2017
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Limited to 400 copies worldwide 9 track 2016 Lake Ruth- Actual Entity UK LP on The Great Pop Supplement label.
Mixed by Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck, the LP will be released on June 24th, 2016 (with copies shipping in good time prior to release). “Crystalline, baroque psych…it really is a lovely twist of paisley pop.” — Brooklyn Vegan
“Splices together lattices of salacious Histoire de Melody Nelson-style funk and Broadcast’s retro space-pop, over which Brice’s airy Sarah Cracknell meets Kate Bush tones, glide with a calming confidence… insistent drums, fuzz-tone guitar and luxuriant keyboards. Imagine Stereolab cutting some rug in an almost baroque fashion.” — Delusions of Adequacy “One of the finest outings to have appeared in recent times on the illustrious GPS imprint… simply exquisite.” — The Sunday Experience
Lake Ruth was formed in 2015 by multi-instrumentalist Hewson Chen of The New Lines, drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, SAVAK, Enon) and vocalist Allison Brice, best known for her prior work with UK groups The Eighteenth Day of May and The Silver Abduction.
With a unique sound rooted in 1960s experimentation, the trio blends elements of baroque pop, pysch, kraut, jazz and electronic music – resulting in rhythmically propulsive tunes, rich with multilayered guitars, modular synths and atmospheric vocals. The nine songs of ‘Actual Entity’ are highly varied in style yet sonically cohesive, ranging from cinematic Italian soundscapes and post-C86 pop anthems to delicate English folk songs and extended motorik jams.
The album’s title ‘Actual Entity’ is a reference to the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and alludes to the fluid nature of reality. It’s songs are populated with a collection of marginal characters – the dispossessed, the isolated and the dead. An artificial intelligence losing its mind during an endless winter. A necromancer unable to raise the dead. The revolt of nature against industrialism. The ghost of a vengeful mother forever hunting down her daughter’s murderer. A Victorian physician desperate to save a dying community.
Vinyl is Mint. Cover is Mint.
Buyer to pay $4 s&h in USA, $15 to Canada, $22 to Europe and S. America & $22 to Australia, Japan, Pacific Rim. Multiple purchase shipping discount if shipped at one time. Payment must be received w/in 5 days of auctions end OR I will send a non paying bidder alert via ebay
