5th Season - Live - VINYL LP

Contrary to the band's name, downtime is a rarity for Slow Season. Sandwiched between summer 2015's extensive tour with their RidingEasy labelmates Mondo Drag and Electric Citizen, plus several short west coast jaunts, the hard-working quartet also found time to hammer out it's most powerful and ambitious album yet. Written, engineered, produced and mixed themselves on their own equipment, entirely on analog tape, Westing is a hard-hitting and powerful reminder of how at one time a rock 'n' roll band could be a transcendent experience.

Composed and produced over the course of nearly three years, Spencer Doran's original soundtrack for SEASON A letter to the future underpins the highly-anticipated atmospheric adventure game in which the main character must save memories of a civilization on the verge of collapse. A rich collection of transmissions from this warmly fading world, we hear a culture and ecology through the sentimental ear of their last witness. Doran was an early collaborator in the making of SEASON, helping define the game's imaginary world and emotional tones. His past work in music has taken many forms including site-specific audio installations, compiling the acclaimed Kankyo Ongaku Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, and his own humanely futuristic work as half of Visible Cloaks. Each pursuit found relevance within the soundtrack of a video game that takes place in an invented culture living out it's final days. SEASON is about what it feels like to be alive in a certain time and place, and to capture that feeling for the future. The protagonist of the story, Estelle, is a photographer and sound recordist, working with her microphone, camera, and journal to uncover the complexity of an environment facing erasure. This documentation is not mere salvage anthropology, but a key to understanding Estelle's own past, and also a meditation on our present. Sound and music factor heavily into the interactive and narrative aspects of SEASON; the character is equipped with a free-form audio recorder used to capture and playback any sound heard in the game and trigger revelations about the world around her. These sounds are at times musical, and we hear them interwoven with Doran's score throughout the soundtrack an organ played by mountain air, a ratchety mechanical music box echoing out communal Inchsleep musicInch for a village, an aeolian harp played by gusts of va

Vinyl LP pressing. In 2022, INVSN marked a triumphant year with their return after five years, releasing InchLet The Night Love YouInch in June. Their momentum continued with the InchHow Far Have We FallenInch EP in December, coinciding with a mesmerizing Live Session at Clouds Hill Studios. This dynamic performance celebrated both the EP's and the band's revitalized sound. The Live Session captured INVSN's essence, infusing their music with an electric intimacy that resonated deeply. The recordings from this session are set to be preserved on LP, ensuring a lasting connection with fans and immortalizing the band's passionate performance.