{"product_id":"cuts-unreal-lp","title":"Cuts - UNREAL [LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e VGLP067\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBarcode:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 5051083164719 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRelease Date: 4th December 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With a clutch of deeply conceptual albums on subjects as diverse as the anthropocene and sleep paralysis after a major car accident, CUTS' latest album, ‘UNREAL’, is a cathartic and mournful meditation on pandemics, populism and disinformation.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘UNREAL’ is the second full-length album by musician and filmmaker Anthony Tombling Jr’s CUTS moniker. Tracks retain their emotional resonances in strong melodies and eerie vocals but there is also a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehard edge to the music compared to previous releases. “I’ve always reacted to my environment,” explains Tombling, “and a lot of the themes I am exploring on ‘UNREAL’ are around climate crisis, pandemics, and the terrifying rise of far right orators.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘UNREAL’ was largely made in lockdown, as Tombling moved to an isolated house where there was no phone or internet three days\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebefore full lockdown was introduced across the UK. He soon built a routine of foraging for dinner in the morning and making music all afternoon. It marks a major departure in his output, as the first album not to be rooted in his films.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e It opens with ‘R U OK?’, with a precipitous bass drop into anxious rhythms like irregular heartbeats. ‘DISSOLUTION’ is a vocoder ballad for fragmenting hardware; ‘UNREAL’ is a hazy roller, evoking fast cars on highways at night. ‘OMEGA MINUS’ is a requiem for postindustrial wastelands, as robotic voices sweep over dust storms and obsolete machinery, then ‘SHELTERED LIFE’ harnesses coarse, rippling static around depth-charge bass. ‘THE BRINK’ brings on woozy and elastic basslines, ‘EXHALE EXILE’ sways in melodic loops lashed to fitful beats, then final track ‘AN INFINITE COLLAPSE’ blows off the grit to reveal songlines and crumbling metallic pulses that\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecrackle with static electricity.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Tombling’s sound world for ‘UNREAL’ is one of anxiety, frustration and emotional peaks, where heavy slugs of sound are lifted by vocoder lyricism, sharp static and fizzing cymbals that cut through like shafts of light in abandoned warehouses. “It’s the heaviest record I’ve made,” says Tombling, “but it’s also the most accessible. I was much more influenced by what's going on in the world - it’s impossible not to be at a moment like this.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eR U OK?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDISSOLUTION\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUNREAL\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOMEGA MINUS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSHELTERED LIFE\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTHE BRINK\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEXHALE EXILE\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAN INFINITE COLLAPSE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Village Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36764396486812,"sku":"VGLP067","price":19.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Cuts-UNREAL_0247e615-4818-4a9a-8387-1066576c8939.jpg?v=1604692393","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/cuts-unreal-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}