Rival Consoles - Persona (Vinyl 2LP)

Rival Consoles - Persona (Vinyl 2LP)

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Double LP • Download Code

Unfolding opens on a snap of delayed snares that ripple out and keep multiplying. Keys arrive soft and late, once the percussion has already filled the room. The title track sits on drone with a muted beat circling under warped horn tones. Memory Arc lays bowed double bass across the synths and lets the tension hold. Phantom Grip comes in galloping, drums thundering over a thick growling bass. Untravel drops the beat entirely for six minutes of undulating melody. Hidden builds from near whispers into controlled noise. Fragment closes on a minute and a half of synth with nothing underneath it.

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About the album.

Persona is an electronic and ambient record released in April 2018, the fifth studio album by Rival Consoles, the recording name of British producer Ryan Lee West. He made it at his studio in south-east London using analogue synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments, and a heavy layer of effects pedals, then had Zino Mikorey master it, with lacquers cut at Schnittstelle. West took the title from Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film, and specifically from a shot in its opening credits of a child reaching toward a face on a screen that keeps shifting between two people, which set up the album's theme of the gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us. Be Kind sits closest to the minimal, improvised side of the Erased Tapes roster, while Phantom Grip pushes toward harder IDM and club rhythms, and Hidden was written after West saw Slowdive play live. This edition is the double LP on Erased Tapes with a digital download code for WAV and MP3 versions.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Unfolding
  2. Persona
  3. Memory Arc

Side B

  1. Phantom Grip
  2. Be Kind
  3. I Think So

Side C

  1. Sun's Abandon
  2. Dreamer's Wake
  3. Untravel

Side D

  1. Rest
  2. Hidden
  3. Fragment
Pressing details.
Format
2LP
Sleeve

Gatefold

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Erased Tapes
Barcode

4050486114469

Catalogue number
LP-ERATP-109
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
13 April 2018
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