{"product_id":"sockethead-harj-o-marj","title":"Sockethead - Harj-o-Marj","description":"CATALOGUE NO.: Y11TH \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFORMAT - LP \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRELEASE DATE 6th Nov 2020 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenres - Techno, Electronic \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrack Listing\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Genesis Redux\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. When I Close My Eyes I See Paint\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Chaos Portrait\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Love Loss Missing Yearning\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Devotion\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Synchronicity\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. In Search Of Truth\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Jahiliyyah\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. All My Days Are Dark As Night\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. Weights Chains \u0026amp; Forgetful Rememberance\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. You Are Not a Machine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. Hyena Clan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. Gravity Stone Ally\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14. Webale\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKiller debut album of screwy soul blatz and psyched synth-pop - created in a caravan on the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScottish West coast - by Manc bod Sockethead; the musical handle for visual artist Richard Harris on Andy Lyster’s Youth\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAside from knocking out scuzzy wee bombs like this album, Sockethead is a member of Manchester’s Return to Zero production\/DJ crew with Turinn and FUMU, and also lectures in art at the city’s institutions. This should give both casual and keener observers of the city’s mutant, sounds strong context for the colourfully visual styles on ‘Harj-o-Marj’, which factors in heavy influences ranging from Detroit techno to post-punk, freak beats and screwed rap, to create a rudely shapeshifting amalgamate disciplined with the hands-on craft and tormented soul of John Bender, Graham Lambkin or Jeff Keen, and fraught with the nostalgia and lurking madness of life spent in isolation.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile Richard’s isolation was self-imposed as part of an artist residency in 2018 on the ruggedly beautiful West Coast of Scotland, its sentiment arguably, resonates with mindsets imposed by our current lockdown. By turns the 14 tracks move from a “pissed and lonely” Graham Lambkin-like collage of synths and cranky vocals in ‘Genesis Redux’ to psyche-celtic geometric synth visions in ’When I Close My Eyes I See Paint’, via the fractal junglist brainjig of ‘Chaos Portait’, to bittersweet synth-funk meditations on ‘Love Loss Missing Yearning’ and ‘Devotion’, and exceptional segue into screwed psychoactive crud on ‘Jahiliyyah’, plus thee crankiest cyberfolk song you’ll hear in 2020 on ‘Hyena Clan’.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s naught but essential listening for fans of Manchester’s best, embodying the misery and psychic bruising of isolation, but naturally blessed with an artist’s creative resilience and knack for transmuting heavy feels into rough gold.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Youth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36859582218396,"sku":"Y11TH","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/image_0_ff49de3b-0300-48ba-a239-e322e95694d2.jpg?v=1605367564","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/sockethead-harj-o-marj","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}