{"product_id":"ian-william-craig-thresholder","title":"Ian William Craig: Thresholder - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThresholder\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eIan William Craig\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eFat Cat\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e600116133212\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eElectronic\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2018-11-02\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Elided \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Some Absolute Means \u003cbr\u003e1.3 TC-377 Poem \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Mass Noun \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Idea for Contradiction 1 \u003cbr\u003e2.1 And Therefore the Moonlight \u003cbr\u003e2.2 The Last Westbrook Lament \u003cbr\u003e2.3 Discovered in Flat \u003cbr\u003e2.4 Sfumato \u003cbr\u003e2.5 Idea for Contradiction 2 \u003cbr\u003e2.6 More Words for Mistake\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ian William Craig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32081019174983,"sku":"36745791","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/products\/3576622_a1e12c65-f23d-4eb9-959e-313a82a31a4f.jpg?v=1710864409","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/ian-william-craig-thresholder","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}