View basket “Frances The Mute” has been added to your basket. Through Other Reflections Soundcarriers, The SKU: 21.00 21.00 £21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Phosphonic Released Date: 20th September 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Through Other Reflections quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info It’s abundantly clear from the first bars of their 5th studio album Through Other Reflection, that this is, and could only ever be, The Soundcarriers. From the enchanting vocal duets of folk-bidden Chanteuses Leonore Wheatley and Dorian Conway; to the precise bass lines of Paul Isherwood and the limber, jazz-cool, Hal Blaine-esque drums of his his co-songwriter Adam Cann; from the fairy-like flutes, 60s-garage guitars and organ sounds pilfered from the archives of exotica – listening to the Soundcarriers resembles a rediscovery of all the most prized, esoteric corners of the 1960s, all bundled up, warped and refracted through the quartet’s astutely modern cultural lens. Channelling Tropicalia, Middle Eastern psychedelic Jazz/Funk, The French Library sounds of Nino Nardini, and a whole host of lavish obscurites beside, Through Other Reflection delivers another sonic adventure from one of the most unique and distinctive voices of British Psychedelia. After an 8 year wait for their album 4 – 2022’s Wilds – it thankfully didn’t take so long for the follow-up this time round. In many ways, this feels like a companion to Wilds; recording again at their Nottingham warehouse studio, Through Other Reflection retains that same organic glow, all the passions and imperfections of a tightly clipped unit jamming out these living, breathing pop-art nuggets as if straight onto the acetate.”We wanted to keep an air of spontaneity with this album and not get too bogged with the recording process”, explains Cann, “It was more a case of getting the songs as tightly written and arranged as possible first so we could get them down quickly in the studio. It always takes longer than you think” Less packed with strident pop hooks as its predecessor however, the music of Through… has been given extra licence to breathe, stretch out, and wander more uncharted terrains. While gleaming psych-pop of tracks like ‘The City Was’, or ‘Already Over’ confidently carry on from where they left off, from the album’s 2nd track ‘Always’, the trip becomes a little less predictable. Starting out as a smoky Procol Harum-meets-French-Psych organ ballad, the music drifts, as if of its own accord into an eerie, garage trance that lingers, cycles, and hypnotises, growing ever stranger, reaching ever-further away from its point of conception. And almost every track on Through Other Reflections holds that outer-body moment, where the band fix themselves on a limber, lysergic groove, lose all grip on time and reality, and melt themselves away into a liquid state of blind euphoria. There are sequences on this record that feel more like rituals than songs, built upon a single hypnotic rhythm which, like the centre of a vortex, pulling everything under its beatific command. Take the finale to ‘What We Found’ for instance, sounding like a ghostly march across the psychedelic moors, or ‘Feel The Way’, where a single athletic drum-loop rises and rises, growing ever more urgent and suspenseful underneath its frantic harpsichords and rasping flutes. Full of such rich stylisms as these, The Soundcarriers showcase themselves as abstract storytellers par excellence by virtue of their textures and arrangements alone. Resembling Romantic composer Maurice Ravel, but if he had just a four-piece rock band at his disposal, Through Other Reflects is rich with detail; there’s shakers, rattles, clarinets, booming drums; there’s synthesiser swarms, chiming xylophones, vintage organs and experimental Cluster & Eno-esque ambiences. Within all this nuance the music flows like some undisclosed narrative swathed in a magnetic secrecy. “It almost comes across like a story in some ways”, says Cann of the album, “the music is quite sectional with elements of exotica and cinematic type layers, it’s a good balance of grooves, tunes and weirdness”. No more is this “epic cinematic feel” heard more proudly than on short instrumental ‘Sonya’s Lament” – its innate, hauntological atmospheres befitting a Peter Strickland soundtrack, or the classics of Lex Baxter, the so-called ‘Founder of Exotica’ himself. On the other hand, providing a greasier undercurrent to all these bucolic sounds is a leaning towards a more “direct” lyricism referencing more “external concerns. Laying down the first tracks for the album in the wintry gloom of pre-lockdown 2020, and drawing inspiration from time spent in Berlin, Through Other Reflections returns to some of the post-apocalyptic futurism explored in 2014’s Entropicalia – a loose concept album inspired by J.G Ballard’s The Drowned World. “The songs explore a disillusionment with the way things are going particularly after 40 years of neoliberalism”, says Cann, “They follow that folk-song tradition of wanting to escape to an imagined time, but here it’s more urban than pastoral. The first couple of ideas I came up with when doing some music in Berlin and had some time to wander aimlessly. And think the atmosphere seeped in, particularly on The City Was and Already Over. He continues, “One aspect of the title, ‘Through Other Reflections’ is about synthesis and layers of influence. How things can be filtered through other things and change the perspective. This is something you get in cities as well.” Though, as with everything The Soundcarriers make, “It can mean anything. It also just sounds kind of cool.” Artist Soundcarriers, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Phosphonic Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings The City Was Always Comet Behind The Fire Feel The Way Sonya's Lament Already Over What We Found With Us For Now Wider Arcs The Return Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Soundcarriers, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Soundcarriers, The Celeste Rock And Pop | Phosphonic | 2LP Released 29th April 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soundcarriers, The Celeste £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Phosphonic SKU: PHOSLP002 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Soundcarriers, The Entropicalia Rock And Pop | Phosphonic | 1LP Released 18th February 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soundcarriers, The Entropicalia £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Phosphonic SKU: PHOSLP003B Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Soundcarriers, The Entropicalia Psychedelia / Garage | Ghost Box | 180g, 1LP Released 19th January 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soundcarriers, The Entropicalia £16.00 Genre: Psychedelia / Garage Label: Ghost Box SKU: GBX020LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Michael Jackson Invincible Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 5th November 2009 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Jackson Invincible £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP013 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 5th November 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nat King Cole The Very Best Of Nat King Cole Jazz | Not Bad Records | 180g, 2LP Released 15th January 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nat King Cole The Very Best Of Nat King Cole £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Not Bad Records SKU: NOT2LP238 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 15th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kylie Minogue Fever Rock And Pop | Parlophone | 180g, 1LP Released 10th June 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kylie Minogue Fever £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 0190296683039 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Right Said Fred Exactly! 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