Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Session - VINYL LP

I want to do what makes me feel like a kid experimenting, having fun, and trying to discover new things about this work, says Pile's Rick Maguire about All Fiction. It's his band's eighth record, and one that finds the ambitious group assembling it's most texturally complex material yet-despite the fraught inspiration underscoring it's restive lyrics. Alongside the blistering drums and scorched-earth riffs that first galvanized Pile's dedicated fanbase, the band has incorporated elegiac strings, mystifying vocal corrosions, and haunting synths. From the creeping fear of cinematic opener InchIt Comes CloserInch to the euphorically ascending keys on ego-shattering closer InchNeon Gray,Inch All Fiction is an ornate, carefully paced study on the subjectivity of perception, the data-shaping despotism of big tech, and the connections between anxiety and death. In it's most vital moments, it's also a resolute recommitment to the restorative significance of art and imagination.A1. It Comes Closer A2. Loops A3. Gardening Hours A4. Link Arms A5. Blood B6. Lowered Rainbow B7. Forgetting B8. Poisons B9. Nude With A Suitcase B10. Neon Gray

Date 4/06/10

Udåd is the new act from Thomas Eriksen of current Norwegian black metal masters, Mork. As his main band evolves ever further into complex & elaborately textured moods & atmospheres & after reflecting back on Mork's first album 'Isebakke' as the framework for this new vessel in the pursuit of pure black metal grimness, Eriksen delved deeply into this stream of influence to create somewhat of an antithesis to current day Mork, with something utterly InchnekroInch in it's motivations & execution. An unpretentious exploration of the brutal reality of death & the lack of meaning in life. With a completely stripped down & cold approach, bringing to mind the spellbinding, almost dungeon-like recording sounds from the burgeoning early 1990's black metal movement, this is an exploration of absolute & relentless darkness, for a sparse & primitive trip through the mental abyss of raw feeling. Influence for this self-titled opus also came from outside of the sphere of metal, having been introduced to the works of cinematographer Jørg Buttgereit, more specifically InchDer TodeskingInch, with it's art based on the raw & ugly truths that humanity bares within it's flesh. Udåd is therefore Eriksen's InchDer TodeskingInch. This edition of 'Udåd' is presented on transparent vinyl with printed inner sleeve.