Cold Spring presents:
- 400 LONELY THINGS -
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400 LONELY THINGS
'The New Twilight' - CD £12
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Tumble back into the nebulous and murky psychedelic haze of 70's-80's VHS horror!
Explore grimy palimpsests from the film studio to the grindhouse with 400 Lonely Things in "The New Twilight": eleven creepy yet sublime analogue microdoses of vintage genre and exploitation audio sampled and filtered through the darkly ambient, melodically droning, melancholic nerd soul.
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"11 freaky tracks of dark ambient and drone music... majestic ghoulishness" (Electronic Sound) |
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CD pack / download includes a fascinating booklet of tantalizing visual clues!
Adjacent genres: hauntology • dark ambient • experimental electronics • psychedelic • drone • soundtrack • plunderphonics
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Watch the eerie video for 'VHS-M155':
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It's been said by many over the years that Horror is the most flexible genre. So many ideas, themes, and styles flow through it.
Craig Varian of 400 Lonely Things has spent a half-century on earth exploring almost all of it, and finds a particular sweet spot in the glut of films released in the VHS boom of the 80's.
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"A loopy and dreamy ambience with very dark undertones... the best I've heard from 400 Lonely Things" (Vital Weekly) |
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Varian developed a fascination for the worlds of sound revealed by audio sampling after first encountering an Ensoniq Mirage in the 1980s. While he found sampling music interesting and often surprising, it was the overlooked moments in the audio environments of horror films in particular that seemed to provide the most fertile wealth of inexplicably sublime material. More often than not, samples from these sources seemed eager to twist themselves into moments of smeary, effusive beauty and when looped and treated, often veered directly into mysterious assemblies of warm melancholia - meditative poetics that were never implied in their lurid lo-fi grindhouse presentations. And, of course, sometimes they were just creepy.
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"Een markant luisteravontuur waarbij het old school gevoel ons op een nadrukkelijke wijze in een melancholische tijdscapsule duwde... geweldige album" (Luminous Dash) |
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While a couple previous releases by 400 Lonely Things in this realm have focused on specific film-titles (2008's "Tonight Of The Living Dead" and 2022's "Nigths And Profecy") with similar results, their 17th album "The New Twilight" is the first 400 Lonely Things release to take a slight step back to widen that perspective a bit, to focus on the overall genre itself. With the exception of one single track, each song (and song title) is sourced from a single film.
To further this theme, the chronologically ordered booklet included in the physical packaging (and digital booklet included with Bandcamp purchases) uses the same techniques to extract a hazy and dreamlike visual reference from the murky celluloid sources.
CD in flood-printed matt-laminate digipak with 12-page booklet.
400 Lonely Things: website | facebook | instagram | twitter | artist page
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"If it was 'Psycho' it wouldn't be the shower scene, more likely something from the lead up to the death of Arbogast, the private eye..." (Moonbuilding) |
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• READ THE NEW 400 LONELY THINGS INTERVIEW WITH DARKUNDERGROUNDMUSICZINE!
• LISTEN TO 400 LONELY THINGS ON THE RADIO...
A Duck In A Tree | CiTR 1 2 3 | I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack
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"The synths capture the atmosphere of a horror movie soundtrack... great sounding" (DarkUndergroundMusicZine) |
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VHS NIGHTMARE: Good Times Are Just Around The Corner!
VHS Nightmare is their follow up to their grindhouse VHS horror-based music video "VHS-M155" (taken from "The New Twilight"). This time around, the source material comes from a home-recorded collection of British television programming from the 70's and 80's... 45 minutes of heartwarming entertainment for the whole family... Watch on YouTube!
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Over n' out!
The Cold Spring Team
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