Mike Lindsay - Supershapes Vol 1 [CD]

Moshi Moshi

£11.70

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: MOSHI572CD
Barcode: 5060918153866
Release Date: 14 Jun 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

On the top floor of RG Scotts in Margate you’ll find an assortment of tables — tables that became field recordings, then programmed scatter rhythms, and eventually the foundations of the new solo album from Mike Lindsay: supershapes (volume 1).

It’s the first instalment in a series of records from the Mercury Prize-winning producer and mixing engineer (who’s also the co-founder of UK acid folktronica band Tunng, and one half of electronic alt-psych duo LUMP, with Laura Marling), a series that explores “the miraculous in the mundane”. Volume 1 looks widely at “everyday domestic objects, especially tables, coffee table books, and the daily rituals that shape us, heavily focusing on the majestic in the domestic”.

The album is a kind of table in its own right: those who sit round it include Anna B Savage and many other musicians and artists — a sense of collaboration that has run through all of Lindsay’s work.

TRACKLISTING
Side A
A1. lie down
A2. ruins in reverse
A3. table
A4. pretender to surrender
A5. kachumber

Side B
B1. two blues
B2. it’s all for you
B3. do what
B4. content
B5. i was the thief