Colin Stetson - The love it took to leave you [2LP]

Invada Records UK

£27.54

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: INV317LP
Barcode: 5051083201452
Release Date: 27 Sep 2024
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

• Following last year’s JUNO award winning album When we were that what wept from the sea, The love it took to leave you features 11 new pieces of emotionally scorching music.

• The album was recorded over a week in 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year-old former metalworks facility in Montreal with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. From the album’s opening track Stetson charts a carefully sequenced ride, travelling through intense territories punctuated with tragic melodies that seek transcendence, epic and frenzied shredders, and many shades of scary beauty, betrayal, and redemption.

This is the art of storytelling wrought instrumentally.

• The love it took to leave you is a perfect storm of technical, musical and compositional complexity and achievement.

2LP housed in gatefold sleeve, CD digipack & digital

Features confirmed in Resident Advisor, The Quietus, Bandcamp , Discogs, Reddit Indieheads, Sight + Sound with more to follow.

Reviews in Electronic Sound, Brooklyn Vegan, Uncut with more to follow

Radio - ‘The Six’ and ‘The love it took…’ both premiered on Mary Ann Hobbs BBC 6Music followed by further plays inc. Jams Supernova and Nemone. BBC 3’ Late Junction.

Tracklisting

A1. The love it took to leave you
A2. The Six
A3. The Augur

B1. Hollowing
B2. To think we knew from fear
B3. Malediction
B4. Green and grey and fading light

C1. Strike your forge and grin

D1. Ember
D2. So say the soaring bullbats
D3. Bloodrest