23rd May 2012: Gravenhurst / Underlights in Session / Playlist

Featured: Gravenhurst - Ghost In Daylight (Warp)

Gravenhurst is the work of songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Talbot from Bristol, England. The Ghost In Daylight is his most sonically diverse work yet, building upon his brand of ambient noise-folk with starkly acoustic songs resting alongside densely layered pieces.

The album's lead single ''The Prize'' is a dark meditation on recurring Gravenhurst themes of compulsion, degradation and the possibility of transcendence, and contains some of Nick's finest lyrics to date. Conjured from disparate ingredients, Gravenhurst's roots lie in the melodic noise of My Bloody Valentine, the lush vocal harmonies of Simon and Garfunkel, the alchemical guitars of Richard Thompson and Johnny Marr, and the widescreen ambient visions of Brian Eno.

"So what’s the album like? I went back to my old way of using different guitar tunings to come up with new ideas, listening to lots of Richard Thompson and Brian Eno, writing song structures on the guitar, while carving out a sonic space for them by manipulating organs, optigans, mellotrons and synthesizers. I find the divine in drone, dissonance and noise so there is a near-religious amount of controlled chaos beneath the close harmonies and finger-picked guitars. So this album is at once deep in acoustics and heavy in electricity; an emergent contrapuntal sonic phenomenon occupying four to five-dimensional phase-space. It’s a bi-limbic, stereotactic sub-caudate trachtotomy of an album and it’s a real pleasure to finally be able to present it to people who have been waiting so patiently for it for so long." Nick Talbot

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Radio Playlist 23rd May 2012 (HERE)

Children Of The Wave - I Defy You [album advance]
Lightships - Silver & Gold [Electric Cables]
Gravenhurst - Circadian [The Ghost In Daylight]
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My Best Fiend - One Velvet Day [In Ghostlike Fading]
Fuxa - Hideaway [Supercharged]
The Vorticists - Cannonball [Show]
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Gravenhurst - The Prize [The Ghost In Daylight]
Black Springs - Sunrise [demo]
The Early Days - My Way [S/T]
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Underlights - Now That You're In Love [EP]
Underlights - Violent Day [Live on Sideways Through Sound]
Underlights - Remnants [Live on Sideways Through Sound]
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Matt Bailey - Bernadette [Book Of Illumination]
Dungen - Min Enda Van [Daytrotter Sessions: Big Orange Studios - April 27, 2012]Gravenhurst - The Foundry [The Ghost In Daylight]
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Johnny Took - Honey I Get Bored [Built For Destruction EP]