Archenfield: Vinyl LP w/ 24 Page Booklet

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Label: Lex Records
Release Date: 31st October

One of the year's most singular and unique albums as musicologist and sample collagist U pieces together an ambient album made of traditional and ancient music, with dusty found audio and stitches of rhythm. It sounds like an expedition through an ancient catacomb of sound. 

Autodidactic musicologist and sample collagist U turned his archival eye on the melting pot of ‘80s post-punk with his debut ‘Life Isn’t A Fountain?’ EP for Lex. He follows up with an experimental exploration of regional identity with ARCHENFIELD, a deeply personal collection of ambient music and found sound that examines the relationship between geographical space and aural histories.

To construct this record U mined a wealth of recorded material relevant to the area. With a nod to traditional music, he takes samples from these records and creates beautifully atmospheric sound pieces that are often mixed with painstakingly researched snippets to create a stirring reflection on local history and broader themes of how we interact, or even fail to interact, with English folklore today.

Pressed on 180g vinyl, the album comes with a 24-page visual companion that expands on its themes and folk stories through imagery and narrative, echoing the album’s soundscape. : The Caretaker, Oneohtrix Point Never, JG Bie[1]berkopf, Maxime Denuc, Leon Vynehall

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1.Urchins
2.Is It A Kind Of Dream?
3.Avenbury Organist
4.Half Moon
5.The Bitter Withy
6.He’s Found It
7.SPOOKS!
SIDE B
8.Cold Lazarus
9.Black Vaughan
10.In Flanders, Again
11.Buried Treasure
12.Sin Eater
13.Ariconium
14.Lost To The Plough