catalogue

BLANCMANGE

WANDERLUST (BLANC CHECK RECORDS)

BLANCMANGE - WANDERLUST 128953
format:
1 CD
release:
19.10.2018
label:
BLANC CHECK RECORDS
genre:
Electro/Funk
item ID:
128953
barcode:
5060079264852
Ten songs composed by Neil Arthur and arranged, co-produced and mixed with Benge (Wrangler/Creep Show) at the latter's Memetune Studios.

This is the pair's third album together. Wanderlust is focussed on similar themes but there's a new energy to the approach - wistfulness turning to anger; dislocation morphing into a powerful desire to be somewhere else, and always a sense of someone fighting for forward motion, dreams, family and the joys of life while seeing, as Arthur puts it, `the pretence of a normal world being erased.' This spirit is also in the music, which is vital, percussive, full of analogue machine-noise and chunky basslines.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. DISTANT STORM
  • 1.2. IN YOUR ROOM
  • 1.3. I SMASHED YOUR PHONE
  • 1.4. GRAVEL DRIVE SYNDROME
  • 1.5. TALKING TO MACHINES
  • 1.6. NOT A PRIORITY
  • 1.7. TV DEBATE
  • 1.8. LEAVES
  • 1.9. WHITE CIRCLE, BLACK SPACE
  • 1.10. WANDERLUST