Label: Do You Have Peace? - DYHP013
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Australia
Released: 2023
Genre: Electronic, Pop,
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Downtempo
ALWAYS + FOREVER is the first compilation to be released on Do You Have Peace? collecting unreleased tracks from both new and existing artists on the label. Featuring Time Cow, YL Hooi, Teresa Winter, Jonnine, Guest, Static Cleaner Lost Reward, Hermeneia, Zaumne, Birthmark, Silzedrek, Laughter of Saints, Vessel & Rakhi Singh. Originally imagined as a project to link together the dream pop related leanings of a disparate group of artists, as the project grew it became more amorphous but still kept a strange and half awake quality throughout. The pop leanings are still there, although often buried under slabs of reverb, but there are also less heavy lidded bedroom confessionals, as well as DIY chamber pieces and teary eyed instrumental passages. Most of the vocal-led tracks are in the first half of the album, leaving the second section to drift fully into hypnagogic sedative territory. Where vocals do come in they are more like half remembered fragments of dream speech than any kind of traditional narrative. The voices eventually leave us completely, drifting through 3 chamber pieces, reclaiming the classical arrangements of strings / piano / etc from the lofty heights of concert halls and scores to something more intimate and familiar, a box room in a flat, or a bedroom, a memory of lying awake staring at the ceiling and trying to go to sleep again. (Mint / New)
Tracklist
1. Time Cow - Hey There Fat Fingers (Original Mix) 03:33
2. Guest - Heavy Knot (Original Mix) 03:06
3. Jonnine - As You Sleep By My Feet (Original Mix) 03:46
4. Static Cleaner Lost Reward - Sweet Paradise (Original Mix) 02:03
5. Teresa Winter - Juniper (Original Mix) 03:33
6. Hermeneia, Zaumne - In The Soil (Original Mix) 03:32
7. Guest, Birthmark - Freeze In The Aisle (Original Mix) 03:20
8. YL Hooi - Glitch Clarry Ditty (Original Mix) 02:33
9. Silzedrek - Kristopher Kolumbo Inaction Ark (Original Mix) 01:41
10. Laughter of Saints - Shards (Original Mix) 03:26
11. Laughter of Saints - The Motif (Original Mix) 04:14
12. VESSEL - Sleepless (Original Mix) 03:50
13. Vessel, Rakhi Singh - It Can't Be Helped (There Is Nothing In The Sky) (Original Mix) 03:02
