Closing Time (Vinyl LP) Hard RockWhen unassuming young Orkney music maker Erland Cooper picked up his guitar and travelled the length of the country to play a show in London's Notting Hill, little did he know that a chance encounter with musical veteran Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good The Bad and The Queen, and Gorillaz) would be the start of a unique songwriting friendship. Together they formed Erland and The Carnival and now, nearly a decade later, arrives 'Closing Time' the band's
These thrilling experimental gestures
Propelled by a political mission and some wicked bass playing
A Remix That Grew Into Stealth's Own Personal Homage To The Metalheadz Sound
flouting conventions of rhythm
fusing the full dramatic range of post rock dynamics to Korean folk roots to create an exhilarating
and to consider their very presence in time and space
2023 reissue on ultra-clear vinyl
"The world is the same as always is
The music is warm and mild
the five turned the Motor City into a mecca of sonic excess and shattered the dazed dreams of hippie America
but they kept in touch and cross-pollinated where they could
The album is heavily front-loaded