Gravitational Pull vs The Desire For An Aquatic Life Stars of the Lid SKU: KRANK020LP Barcode: 796441802012 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Kranky Released Date: 30th March 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Vinyl edition of Stars of the Lid 2nd album in print for the first time in over 20 years. The release of Music for Nitrous Oxide, the 1995 debut album by Stars of the Lid, heralded a new strain of the american underground music scene, one borne of the heat and humidity, boredom, and the insular, constipated, rockist music scene of Austin, Texas, the home of the duo of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie. It was a muffled lashing out against surrounding musical conventions, a small middle finger to the local dominant “americana” scene, but one that nobody could see outside the shack of a house in which they recorded or at their occasional sparsely populated live performances. It was as punk a move as anyone could make at that place and in that time. But in a surprise to the two members of SotL, people took notice, as related rumblings and grumblings were taking place simultaneously in other parts of the american landscape. Coming quickly on the heels of that release was our current subject, Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life, released one year later. This is a transitional release that travels from the scruffiness of the debut’s ambiance to more extended and subtle undulating tides of assembled sound, yet still dominated by processed guitars as the primary sound source. It also serves as an omen to the mini-orchestral works to come beginning with the Avec Laudenum album a few years later. Gravitational Pull… is a small masterpiece. The Stars of the Lid’s second full length album was originally published on vinyl by the Sedimental label in 1996, and then issued on compact disc by kranky the following year. It has now been out of print on the vinyl format for more than 20 years and that matter is now rectified with this release. The original album mix has been remastered by Pieter De Wagter, lacquers cut by Chicago Mastering Service and vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressing in Salina, Kansas. Artist Stars of the Lid Genre Americana / Country Label Kranky Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. The Better Angels Of Our Nation 2. Cantus; In Memory Of Warren Wiltzie 3. Lactate’s Moment 4. 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