Demonstrating an unusual approach to releasing an album, the latest offering from IS TROPICAL is being released in five parts and in stages. It’s worth quoting from the press release at length to fully explain the immense ambition of the project.
“The artwork is a visual representation of both the recording process and the release with each 10 vinyl displaying the continent in which the tracks were recorded. The five vinyls when displayed on top of each other create the globe, unifying the concept as a whole with each vinyl existing as an art work and tribute to the continent it was recorded in.”
Are they crazy? Maybe so, but this is about making something that’s special, something that’s a multisensory experience, something that’s art – everything that’s missing in the impersonal, intangible download age.
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Blooping loops trip and skip through wibbly electro waves on ‘Crawl’, which is at once spacious and extremely busy. There’s certainly a lot going on, while the dispassionate vocals sound rather at odds with the music in their laid-back near monotone. The dreamy ‘On My Way’ is a hazy piece of electro-shoegaze that floats by rather nicely.
As a single release it works well enough, but it will be interesting to hear how ‘Black Anything’ pieces together.
IS TROPICAL Online
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