The Apartments new album "In and Out of the Light", a celebration
In and Out of the Light is a classic Apartments album, with songs, lines and melodies coming back to you long after the music has stopped playing. The songs follow a set of characters who, in the aftermath of loss or simply the changes that turn up in everyone’s lives, have gone looking for some other way to live—and found it. Stories with the texture of this experience float through the intimate, reflective songs on the album.
The Apartments “In and Out of the Light”: 1. Pocketful of Sunshine – 2. Write Your Way Out of Town – 3. Where You Used to Be – 4. What’s Beauty to Do – 5. Butterfly Kiss – 6. We Talked Through Till Dawn – 7. I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore – 8. The Fading Light
Album available at any good record store from the Talitres web store, via Bandcamp or on the internet this way.
((Yellow opaque vinyl, limited edition, 500 units (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code)) now sold out via our webstore / Bandcamp but still available in a couple of indie record stores | Black vinyl (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code) | CD digipack 2 panels with booklet | Digital.
“The 8 songs adhere to the model of stately chamber-pop established with The Apartments string of masterpieces in the 90s…with “What’s Beauty to Do?” a jangly throwback to the band’s Rough Trade period and “I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore” an expression of lovelorn pique evoking a lost Sixties soundtrack by Michel Legrand.” Uncut 8/10
“Walsh’s greatest strength has always been telling intimate, affecting stories that feel tender without being mawkish. ‘In And Out Of The Light’ is no different, capturing the first steps that come after loss, buoyed by lush, gorgeous arrangements that unfurl around one another.” NME
"It’s the gift of evocation that floods our senses, the same gift that Apartments records have freely given from the off." Stereo Embers
Shinding ****
"A collection of eight songs that take beauty from heartbreak, and gather emotions to create a work of divine confidence." The Big Takeover
The birds have returned
"Since its initial release in 2004, Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck—the debut effort from Flotation Toy Warning—has become somewhat of a cult favorite among the avant-pop set; a genre-swapping classic comparable to Flaming Lips’ Soft Bulletin and the Avalanches’ Since I Left You. The UK band spin their longform suites tightly and delicately as spiderwebs, connecting exotica-inflected ambient to psychedelic rock, Britpop to plunderphonics, downtempo electronica to acoustic folk. These rotating accoutrements, and the dynamic articulations between them, set a surprisingly smooth pace for the marathon-length tracks (9-and-a-half minute highlight “Donald Pleasance,” the ethereal two-fer “Fire Engine On Fire”). Sure, the arrangements dawdle now and again—Flotation Toy Warning are content to spend most of “Popstar Reaching Oblivion” basking in blurred synths—but they never durdle. My advice to prospective listeners: as with everything else in life, just go with it." Zoe Camp, Bandcamp.
2LP vinyls, gatefold, printed inner sleeve, comes with free download code.
Available from the Talitres webstore or Bandcamp.
Feldup - "A Thousand Doors, Just One Key" out today, CD & vinyl
Written, composed and recorded over a period of nine months, “A thousand doors, just one key” is much more than a try.
Feldup’s compositions are hymns and solitary celebrations that beg to open up to the world. The young musician confidently wears his influences on his sleeve. Everyone will recognize them. Through these titles, we perceive the tribute paid to his illustrious predecessors. And this tribute, this recognition are the tangible signs of an astonishing maturity.
Album available in any good record store, from our webstore, via Bandcamp or online.
IDAHO "Levitate" now available on vinyl
Initially released may 2001, "Levitate" is IDAHO’s sixth studio album. Jeff Martin composed and produced all of "Levitate’s" songs and played every instrument save drums.
Following the vinyl edition of "Hearts of Palm" late 2018, “Levitate” is now available on vinyl for the very fist time via Talitres. Limited edition, up to 1 000 copies, and remastered for vinyl from 20bit digital tapes by Bill Sanke. Original artwork revisited by Jonathan Schute (http://www.goaheadschute.com).
IDAHO – ‘Levitate’: A1. Wandering the Fields – A2. 20 Years – A3. For Granted – A4. On the Shore – A5. Carousel – B1. Come Back Home – B2. Orange – B3. Santa Claus is Weird – B4. Levitate
Available in any good record store, from our online store or via Bandcamp.
The Apartments new album "In and Out of the Light", out September 18th; available for pre-order
"In and Out of the Light" is a classic Apartments album, with songs, lines and melodies coming back to you long after the music has stopped playing. The songs follow a set of characters who, in the aftermath of loss or simply the changes that turn up in everyone’s lives, have gone looking for some other way to live—and found it. Stories with the texture of this experience float through the intimate, reflective songs on the album.
The album came together in a new way for The Apartments. Recording began in Sydney, at the end of winter of 2019. Working a few hours a day, one or two days a week, the album was finished in the summer, with the final mix completed the day before coronavirus lockdown hit Australia in 2020. The songs took shape impressionistically across the recording days, with details of melodies, fragments of lyrics and hooks determining the form—a departure from the band’s usual way of building songs upon a bedrock of bass and drums.
Peter Milton Walsh and bass player Eliot Fish worked with producer Tim Kevin in his Marrickville studio in Sydney, while French Apartments, Natasha Penot and Antoine Chaperon, recorded their parts in various studios in France. English drummer Nick Allum worked in London. "In and Out of the Light" (their 7th studio album) again features Chris Abrahams from The Necks on piano. The vocal and piano for We Talked Through Till Dawn were recorded live in one take with Peter singing as Chris played piano. They had recorded the popular Apartments song, She Sings to Forget You, in this way before. Miro Bukovsky, who played on No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal, again played flugelhorn and trumpet.
The Apartments “In and Out of the Light”: 1. Pocketful of Sunshine – 2. Write Your Way Out of Town – 3. Where You Used to Be – 4. What’s Beauty to Do – 5. Butterfly Kiss – 6. We Talked Through Till Dawn – 7. I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore – 8. The Fading Light
Album available for pre-order from the Talitres web store or via Bandcamp (pre-orders to start on Bandcamp, July 3rd).
Yellow opaque vinyl, limited edition, 500 units (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code) | Black vinyl (gatefold, 1LP, woth digital download code) | CD digipack 2 panels with booklet | Digital
10 % OFF during the pre-order campaign, except yellow opaque limited edition. Ships on or around September 10th, 2020.
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