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ARMS AND SLEEPERS

WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (PELAGIC)

ARMS AND SLEEPERS - WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS 162768
format:
1 CD
release:
08.03.2024
label:
PELAGIC
genre:
Electro/Funk
item ID:
162768
barcode:
0197190421941
Formed in 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts and now based in Berlin, Germany; Arms and Sleepers is the electronic trip hop project of producer Mirza Ramic (formerly a duo with Max Lewis), who has subsequently released 13 full albums and 20 EPs of glitched-out grooves that take as much inspiration from leftfield hip hop experimentalism as they do from the slowburn ambience and panoramic euphoria of contemporary post-rock.

His forthcoming 14th full-length album, `What Tomorrow Brings' is a breathtaking aural account that charts the life-changing journey of being forced out of your home over four distinct, musical sections.

Initially inspired by watching Kenneth Branagh's award-winning coming-of-age drama Belfast as the fighting in Ukraine broke out, MIrza found himself reflecting on his own experience as a child and how it has formed the man he is today.

As such, the album's four sections, titled `Innocence', `Melancholy', `Rupture' and `Reflection', serve as the reification of the life and experience that Mirza lost as well as a representation of the identity he has since shaped for himself.

Whereas more recent Arms and Sleepers releases, such as 2022's full-length `former kingdoms', are peppered with the sultry saxophone refrains, syncopated 16ths and smoky ambience of a New York jazz bar; `What Tomorrow Brings' is instead acute and driving, with complex drum breaks reminiscent of powerful post-rock acts such as BATTLES, Mogwai and Caspian brought insistently and urgently to the fore.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. GO NOW (DON'T LOOK BACK)
  • 1.2. IT'S EASY
  • 1.3. FATHERS AND SONS
  • 1.4. O-R-I-O-N (FEAT. YEYEY)
  • 1.5. NAUTICA
  • 1.6. HAVE YOU GONE TO THE MOON YET?
  • 1.7. BELFAST (FEAT. SOFIA INSUA)
  • 1.8. YESTERDAY'S SORROW
  • 1.9. HEART OF NIGHT
  • 1.10. THE ART OF DYING
  • 1.11. ANACONDA
  • 1.12. GASP
  • 1.13. BLOOD SONG (FEAT. ANDREAS SCHÜTZ)
  • 1.14. MY HOME IS A VESSEL FLOATING THROUGH AN ABSTRACT SPACE TOWARDS...
  • 1.15. BLUE RIDE / HELL'S RAIN
  • 1.16. MELODIE
  • 1.17. WHO YOU WERE BEFORE