We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the S/T staff on its collective ass.
The Artist/Album: Leyland Kirby, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winners, 2009)
The Vibe: A four-hour tone poem about the “fragility of existence”—one that’s strikingly beautiful and (surprisingly) never boring.
RIYL: Power naps; quality-controlled trilogies; the Selected Ambient Works period of Aphex Twin
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2 Responses to “FROM THE STACKS: Leyland Kirby”
on June 11th, 2010 at 11:33 am #
[...] alongside such such s/t-approved artists as Metro Area and the Caretaker (a.k.a. another alias of Leyland Kirby). var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="LISTENING STATION: Demdike Stare"; [...]
on April 15th, 2011 at 10:07 am #
[...] Leyland Kirby has suddenly emerged from hiding and shared his plans for the year. First up: the debut volume of a four-part white label series called Intrigue & Stuff. Available now in a clear vinyl pressing from Boomkat, it’ll soon land at such domestic shops as Aquarius Records and Forced Exposure. We hear it’s truly bizarre—six slices of “retro futurism” that are nothing like the slow, debilitating decay of Kirby’s last record, Sadly the Future Is No Longer What It Was. [...]