Love and Unlearn
Gentle Stranger
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US $23.99
- Release Date 31 January 2020
- Product code
- PRAH20
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Label
- Prah
Gentle Stranger took just one week to crystallise a set of ideas that formed the emotional core of their debut album Love And Unlearn. The band, who have a shifting cast of associated members, were then comprised of Tom Hardwick-Allan, Alex McKenzie, Josh Barfoot and Evangeline Ling (who has since left to focus on Audiobooks). “It was the first time that we tried to record a stand alone project,” says multi-instrumentalist Hardwick-Allan of the seven days they spent in one small room two and a half years ago. “it’s a snapshot of the band at that particular time, rather than representative of us as a whole.”
Recorded “almost all live”, there are no samples and precious few overdubs. The band are all accomplished multi-instrumentalists, and recall heading to Margate’s PRAH studios by train, carrying everything from a flute, trombone, and saxophone to a dual clarinet and a smoke alarm. They even brought a toy piano, despite only needing four notes, such was their dedication to getting things right in terms of both tone and texture.
Tracklist | ||
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TRACKLISTING | ||
1 | Idle Messenger | |
2 | Love And Unbass | |
3 | Dunce Disco Anthem | |
4 | Plastic Skeleton | |
5 | New Insect Lite | |
6 | Call Me Back Later | |
7 | Insects Logic | |
8 | Hurry Horse | |
9 | Like A Deer | |
10 | Two To Carry | |
11 | Basic Stretches | |
12 | Rook In The Rafters | |
13 | Love And Unbrass | |
14 | Trope After Trope | |
15 | Foxglove | |
16 | Smoke Alarms | |
17 | Kestrels | |
18 | Love And Ulearn | |
19 | Obvious As Snow |