Craig, Ian William: Thresholder
Craig, Ian William: Thresholder
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Craig, Ian William
Label: Fat Cat
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 600116133212
Genre: Electronic
Eighteen months on from his last new release, Vancouver-based singer / composer Ian William Craig returns to FatCat with an (album-length) EPof eleven brand new tracks. Entitled Thresholder, the record sees Craig return towards the smudged and scoured beauty of his 2016 opus, Centres, a record which was universally acclaimed, making many end-of-year lists - including the likes of Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Wire, The Quie-tus, The 405 and Drowned In Sound. For Craig the focus of the album was a great boundlessness of space, the sound of the big bang, the spookiness of the quantum world, and vacillations of different kinds ofcon-flicting time. Besides as the often-quoted William Basinski reference point, the music here recalls the visceral media-decay of early '00s operators like Fennesz, Belong, Desormais, Philip Jeck or Pimmon. "Idea for Contradiction 2"Is like a massively over-driven or sandpaper-scoured version of Brian Eno's "An Ending"or some shredded Colin Stetson stem. The ending of"And Therefore the Moonlight" - is reminiscent of Sigur Rós (who are fans and recently invited Ian to play their NorðurogNiður festival in Reykjavik); while "Sfumato" exists in the same dimension as The Caretaker's haunted ballroom with it's reverb-drenched and occluded distant vocals.
Tracks:
1.1 Elided
1.2 Some Absolute Means
1.3 TC-377 Poem
1.4 Mass Noun
1.5 Idea for Contradiction 1
2.1 And Therefore the Moonlight
2.2 The Last Westbrook Lament
2.3 Discovered in Flat
2.4 Sfumato
2.5 Idea for Contradiction 2
2.6 More Words for Mistake
