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The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay Album

The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay Album
Performer: The Stranger
Genre: Electro
Title: Watching Dead Empires In Decay
MP3 album size: 1741 mb
FLAC album size: 2308 mb
Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Abstract
Country: UK
Released: Oct 2013
Catalog number: LOVE088
Label: Modern Love

Tracklist


1About To Enter A Strange New Period5:23
2We Are Enemies But Not Here2:34
3Ill Fares The Land3:03
4So Pale It Shone In The Night6:17
5Spiral Of Decline4:28
6We Scarcely See Sunlight5:14
7Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends?7:13
8Providence Or Fate5:25
9Grey Day Drift5:41

Versions


CategoryArtistTitle (Format)LabelCategoryCountryYear
LOVE088The Stranger Watching Dead Empires In Decay ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, Gre)Modern LoveLOVE088UK2013
LOVE088The Stranger Watching Dead Empires In Decay ‎(9xFile, MP3, Album, 320)Modern LoveLOVE088UK2013
LOVE088The Stranger Watching Dead Empires In Decay ‎(CD, Album, Promo, Car)Modern LoveLOVE088UK2013
LOVE088The Stranger Watching Dead Empires In Decay ‎(9xFile, FLAC)Modern LoveLOVE088UK2013
OTLCD2020The Stranger Watching Dead Empires In Decay ‎(CD, Album)Octave LabOTLCD2020Japan2013

Credits


  • CoverGuy Denning

Notes


© & ℗ Modern Love 2013
Packaged in tri-fold digifile cover.
Distribution info: boomkat.com (UK), Forced Exposure (US), Kompakt (ROW)

Barcodes


  • Barcode (Text): 5060165480425
  • Matrix / Runout: www.handlewithcare.de LOVE088CD AD23354-01
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI L573
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 9710

Companies


  • Distributed By – Boomkat
  • Distributed By – Forced Exposure
  • Distributed By – Kompakt Distribution
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Modern Love
  • Copyright (c) – Modern Love
  • Manufactured By – www.HandleWithCare.de
  • Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – AD23354

Video

Album


Grey Day Drift 8. Ill Fares The Land 9. About To Enter A Strange New Period Watching Dead Empires in Decay, a new album recorded under another of Kirbys pseudonyms The Stranger and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. Its complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just cant work out how it was constructed. Gone are the sampled 78s of The Caretaker, but it also doesnt exactly sound electronic - you just cant quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings Found Sounds Sheets of metal scraped. Listen free to The Stranger Watching Dead Empires in Decay We are enemies but not here, So pale it shone in the night and more. 9 tracks 45:18. Discover more music, concerts, videos. Album 2013 9 Songs. Leyland Kirby. The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay. Watching Dead Empires in Decay, an album recorded under another of Kirbys pseudonyms The Stranger and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. Its a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirbys career so far. Gone are the sampled 78s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just cant quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings . The Stranger : Watching Dead Empires in Decay. By: Tyler Parks. The thought that one inhabits the end times seems to be as much comfort as horror. His previous record as The Stranger was titled Bleaklow, and was concerned with the strangers journey across the moorland of that name in the Derbyshire High Peak. Its more harrowing than Watching Dead Empires, and despite inhabiting a similarly industrial-minded sensibility, quite different to it. Yet Dead Empires is also rich with experiments and surprises. Here he bends the two impulses on a dark, pulsating album that sits alongside other neo-industrial work from Raime and the Haxan Cloak. New Album Releases. Phoebe Bridgers. Формируйте собственную коллекцию. Play jigsaw puzzles for free Home. The Stranger. Watching Dead Empires in Decay, 2013. So Pale It Shone In the Night, 06:20. Spiral of Decline, 04:28. We Scarcely See Sunlight, 05:14. Normani Dancing with a Stranger. James Blunt You're Beautiful
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Listen… You could almost hear them walking on your grave… Bodies dragged across the future, smeared with blood and empty dreams… Listen… You could almost hear them screaming… Suffocating in the world that they together built, wrapped in silence that will still remain forever… long after they’re gone… They are all zombies now… Buildings rusting, curtains crumbling, children reaching, for the glow of digital and social decay… We have built this real nightmare… and together we will drown…

Words are nothing when compared to the feelings that this music brings. Dark shuffling rhythms, muffled fabrics, sinister asphyxiation. Sounds resisting all identification, yet triggering some recall from within. Sonic particles harvested from scraping, fondling and collapsing textures. Passages of flashbacks, turmoil and unease. These are the sounds of The Stranger, yet another pseudonym of James Leyland Kirby, for whom I have sung a many praises in the past. In the last few years, Kirby explored and subsequently released music inspired by the dusty 78 RPM records, under his The Caretaker alias. Those familiar with the project will no doubt treasure the records on his very own History Always Favours The Winners label. Among those, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011) and Patience (After Sebald) (2012) are my all time favorites. But for this release, Kirby is picked up by Modern Love – home to many great ‘hauntology’ masters, such as Demdike Stare, Andy Stott, and Vatican Shadow.

It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed [...] It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling – but often just beautiful.

The music is without a doubt a little eerie, cinematic, and drab. But knowing Kirby’s fascination with ghostly melodies and their relation to the memories of past (real and abstract), adds a layer of somber nostalgia to the album. Watching Dead Empires In Decay is a tribute to the complex aspects of humanity, through every little action on this plane. Perhaps this apocalyptic interpretation of The Stranger’s shadowy stroll through the culture of decline is just my imagination. But it is the imagery which is triggered by his music. A triumph for the label! A hidden gem for those ‘in the know’!! Guaranteed to be on many [and mine] Best of 2013 lists!!! Highly recommended!
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