Continuous Hole Drew Daniel / John Wiese
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Listen/purchase: Through Mazes Running by Drew Daniel & John Wiese
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The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? - deep house album (with several twists) by Drew Daniel of Matmos
Thrill Jockey is pleased to announce the return of The Soft Pink Truth, the solo electronic project of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-found sound duo Matmos. Asked to explain his new album’s gauntlet-throwing title, Drew Daniel says: “Years ago a friend was DJing in a club and a woman came into the DJ booth and asked ‘is it going to get any deeper than this?’ and the phrase became a kind of mantra for us. What did she really want? This album was created as an attempt to imagine possible musical responses to her question.”
Throughout the ten songs of the album, the provocation to go “deeper” prompts promiscuous moves across the genres of disco, minimalism, ambient, and jazz, sliding onto and off of the dancefloor, sweeping higher and lower on the scale of frequencies, engaging both philosophical texts re-set as pop lyrics and wordless glossolalia. Rather than a dryly pursued thesis, the music flows across emotional terrain from upfront peaks to melancholic valleys, often within the same song.
The Singers and Speakers:
François Bonnet: Speech on “Deeper Than This?”
Erica Burger-Hannum: Singing on “Trocadero” and “Deeper”
Daniel Clark: Singing on “Deeper Than This?”
Angel Deradoorian: Singing on “Deeper Than This?”
Eléonore Huisse: Speech on “Deeper Than This?”
Rose E. Kross: Voice on “Joybreath”
Jamie Stewart: Singing on “La Joie Devant La Mort”
Id M Theft Able: Voice on “Sunwash” and “Deeper Than This?”
Jenn Wasner: Singing on “Wanna Know”
The Players:
Drew Daniel: Electronics, Backing Vocals, Piano, Production, Mix
M.C. Schmidt: Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizers, Percussion
Jason Willett: Bass Guitar
Mark Lightcap: Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Úna Monaghan: Irish Harp on “Wanna Know”
Obadias Guerra: Harp on “Now That It’s All Over”
Tom Boram: Harpsichord
Koye Berry: Piano
Ulas Kurugullu: Violin, Viola, Cello, String Arrangements
Nate Wooley: Trumpet on “Moodswing”
Andrew Bernstein: Saxophone on “Deeper”
John Berndt: Saxophone on “Sunwash”
Brooks Kossover: Flute on “Deeper”
Shelly Purdy: Vibraphone on “Sunwash”
Ayoze de Alejandro Lopez: Percussion
John Wiese: Broken Glass
All songs by The Soft Pink Truth except “Now That It’s All Over”, which was written by Willie Hutch.
This record was created in honor of a mysterious woman who walked up to a friend while he was DJing and asked “is it going to get any
deeper than this?”
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The Soft Pink Truth - "Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Dark Room Mix)" (official video)
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you know what, there's a fic out there you might recognise through this image, but if not - @reedroad, i see you and i am grateful for this delicious pain
but yeah
i needed to focus on the part that offers some comfort because it is in my nature i guess
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Have not read any reviews yet but that’s a hell of a good start lmao
Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
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