Laurel halo is back, presenting her unique take on electronic music once again on her first full length since 2012s quarantine on hyperdub. Laurel halos quarantine, released on hyperdub records, follows hot on the heels of dean blunt and inga copelands black is beautiful recorded for the same label and is not unlike that album in that it too is uncategorisable and will probably appeal to a similar audience. Quarantine is the debut album by american electronic musician laurel halo, released on may 21, 2012 by hyperdub. There are similarities both in the singing style and in the heavy use of electronic instrumentation. Masks laurel halo presents an albums worth of score provided for the 2018 experimental documentary possessed by dutch design collective metahaven, produced in collaboration with rob. Features song lyrics for laurel halo s quarantine album. Ever since she revealed the hyperfused kinetics of 2010s king. Laurel halo focusses and diffracts her energies into the hitech jazzfusion advancement of dust. First time listening to laurel halo and im intrigued enough to check out her other works. All the tracks are decent in their own right, however its not as engaging as some of laurel halo s other excursions like quarantine. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Its sound is so foreign, sounding perfectly extraterrestrial or if you prefer its as if you woke up within a william gibson novel, it took me a few listens to sink comfortably into the rather. The album features contributions from eli keszler, julia holter, michael salu, and max d among others, and was preceded by. Laurel halos score for metahaven film possessed is getting a vinyl release.
Laurel halo, one of the more fascinating electronic music producers to emerge in the 2010s, follows two eps for hippos in tanks with an album for hyperdub. Laurel halo quarantine by laurel halo 20 0504 music. Laurel halos quarantine is one of the most compelling debut albums weve heard this year. She followed with studio albums chance of rain 20 and dust 2017, as well as various eps and the minialbum raw silk.
Laurel halo shakes up her sound after partnering with a. You can stream the music video for the lead single jelly below via youtube. Dust is the third album by berlinbased american electronic music artist laurel halo. Originally from ann arbor, michigan, the complex, atmospheric techno tracks on her releases like 2011s hour logic are informed by the innovations of nearby detroit as well as london and her. In situ is her first release for the iconic london label, following her two grandiose albums on hyperdub 2012s quarantine and 20s chance of rain. Since the release of her debut album quarantine 2012 on the pioneering london label hyperdub, she has established herself as a distinct innovative voice within electronic music. Laurel halo quarantine from the more danceoriented pop of her spring ep as king felix, to the darker, dizzier hour logic release on hippos. Features song lyrics for laurel halos quarantine album. Laurel halo quarantine at times hard to listen but also the most beautiful and original music you can find. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. The writing on this can be beautifully written, but also on the nose.
She released her debut album quarantine on hyperdub in 2012 to critical. United in their restlessness, they probe at the foundations of structure and form, always unfolding, always moving towards. This is an album of transporting songs, various altitude. Subsequent efforts, chiefly chance of rain 20 and in situ 2015, have slowly exorcised the demons that seemingly haunted the. Whilst fully formed in their own rights, those records now appear to be a playground or warmup for the stunningly loose yet instinctively coherent geometries and ideas. Theres a track on laurel halo s first album, 2012s quarantine, called joy. Laurel halos quarantine was the wire magazines number 1 album from 2012. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that. So raw in fact, that it took me awhile to get into her voice. The quietus called it one of this years most intriguing and divisive listens. Laurel anne chartow born june 3, 1985, known professionally as laurel halo, is an american electronic musician currently based in berlin, germany. New releases from washtenaw county musicians in the age of quarantine. Listen buy a rare film interview with laurel halo, for frieze news laurel halo a rare film interview with laurel halo, for frieze. Possessed by laurel halo, released 10 april 2020 1.
Its sound is so foreign, sounding perfectly extraterrestrial or if you prefer its as if you woke up within a william gibson novel, it took me a few listens to sink comfortably into the rather uncomfortable. K7, 2019 tru opal the light within you 12 with hodge livity sound, 2018 raw silk uncut wood lp latency, 2018 dust lp hyperdu. Originally from ann arbor, michigan, the complex, atmospheric techno tracks on her releases like 2011s hour logic are informed by the. When laurel halo first announced her arrival on the scene back in 2012, with the instant underground hit that was quarantine, it was with a sound that courted the mood of dream pop whilst stubbornly throwing all sorts of lightly dystopian spanners into the mix. May 21, 2012 buy quarantine by laurel halo on bleep. Since 2010s king felix and into last years highly lauded hour logic, laurel halo has developed a selfcontained take on electronic music, collapsing the.
After a period of instrumental focus, laurel halos new album quarantine reintroduces lyrical content within a. Download laurel halo quarantine 2012 mp3 320 torrent or any other torrent from mp3 category. W hen fact magazine recently asked brooklynbased laurel halo what her. Berlin party mothers finest launches label with compilation featuring batu, laurel halo. Since her 2007 launch in japan, hatsune miku whose. Theres undeniably a much dirtier analogue aesthetic smeared across the tracks of this album. Laurel halo quarantine by laurel halo 20504 amazon. The oneohtrix point never remix is a decent closer. In halos hands, that aforementioned liminal space between virtual and actual becomes bathed in warm sunlight, and her music responds in kind. Dust represents another change in direction for an artist unaccustomed to staying in the same place for long. She released her debut album quarantine on hyperdub in 2012 to critical acclaim. Ian cohen of pitchfork called the album something definitive and halos best and most cohesive work to date.
The album features contributions from eli keszler, julia holter, michael salu, and max d among others, and was preceded by the single jelly, featuring klein and lafawndah. Influenced by her midwest roots, the music speaks to new club ecologies, explored via abstracted rhythms, chaotic ambience and moody jazz elements. Laurel halo has spent the past eight years building up a reputation as a slippery artist, moving from fidgety techno to. D ust, laurel halos third fulllength, is bright and loose, a collection of tracks dancing at the borders of entropy. The wire named quarantine as the release of the year in its annual critics poll. May 24, 20 laurel halo s quarantine was the wire magazines number 1 album from 2012. Quarantine is the debut album by american electronic musician laurel halo, released on may. Sep 25, 2015 dust is the third album by berlinbased american electronic music artist laurel halo.
Worth listening but better appreciated in conjunction with the rest of laurel halos discography. Laurel halo, born 1985 in detroit, is an electronic music composer, performing artist and dj, based in berlin. Mk ultra is the fifth track off laurel halos critically acclaimed debut album quarantine. Worth listening but better appreciated in conjunction with the rest of laurel halo s discography. The title of the track is the name of a topsecret cia project in which the agency. In some ways, the recording seems like a sequel or maybe a sibling or cousin to quarantine, her vocalheavy 2012. Stream tracks and playlists from laurel halo on your desktop or mobile device. Constantly collaborating and moulding a kind of exotically contoured avantgarde pop, halo continues to expand her sonic universe, confirming the enormous talent demonstrated by her debut album, quarantine 2012. May 21, 2012 mixed by laurel halo, zeljko mcmullen performer access virus xl, akai ax60, akai mpc, arp 2600, elektron octatrack, fender jaguar, korg electribe es1, korg ms20, korg monopoly, korg polysix, mfb synth ii, roland d50, roland juno106, roland sh101, yamaha cs80, electric piano wurlitzer, voice, producer, recorded by laurel halo. Download laurel halo quarantine 2012 mp3 320 torrent. Quarantine is an album that is raw, and also quite nicely crafted. Commissioned by ctm festival and transmediale for their joint 2016 editions, still be here is a unique collaborative performance that draws us into the multiplying realities of a 21st century pop star, and traces the dynamics at play between fans, corporations, and social desires. Quarantine has a downtempo, folky, hazy feel with, at times, an almost boards of canada ambience. To compare laurel halo to bjork would be doing both artists a disservice although that is as good a starting point as any.
Drawing from a range of music lineages, her considered approach has enabled. All the tracks are decent in their own right, however its not as engaging as some of laurel halos other excursions like quarantine. Users who ignore this rule will be banned from the site. It is strictly forbidden to share links to albums via file sharing sites magnet, torrent, kingdom leaks etc. Brooklynbased experimental electronic artist laurel halo talks to jenn pelly about the gruesome manga image she borrowed for the cover of her debut lp, quarantine, as well as her fascination with. Following several releases of moody experimental techno, including 20 fulllength chance of rain and 2015 doubleep in situ issued by honest jons, shapeshifting producer laurel halo returned to vocalbased works as well as her previous home, hyperdub with 2017 album dust. Mixed by laurel halo, zeljko mcmullen performer access virus xl, akai ax60, akai mpc, arp 2600, elektron octatrack, fender jaguar, korg electribe es1, korg ms20, korg monopoly, korg polysix, mfb synth ii, roland d50, roland juno106, roland sh101, yamaha cs80, electric piano wurlitzer, voice, producer, recorded by laurel halo. Abstract, synthpop, experimental laurel halo quarantine. Laurel halo s score for metahaven film possessed is getting a vinyl release. While theres not much need to say more in terms of a recommendation, quarantine took me some time to cozy up to. Theres a track on laurel halos first album, 2012s quarantine, called joy. It received acclaim from critics, and was named release of the year by british magazine the wire.
Unlike her previous efforts there are no vocals on this album, marking a definite change in direction. Equally interested in experimental composition as well as cuttingedge club culture, laurel halo has navigated a singular, unpredictable path since she first emerged during the late 2000s. On a record full of angst and paranoia, the message seemed to be that joy was something lost, or unattainable. Experimental techno producer laurel halo makes her formidable return with a double ep on honest jons records.
Quarantine by laurel halo, released 23 april 2012 1. Electronic producersinger laurel halo has recealed that she has completed production on her forthcoming third studio album dust, currently slated to be released on june 23rd, 2017 by hyperdub records. W hen fact magazine recently asked brooklynbased laurel halo what her debut album was concerned with, she answered. Lest there be any doubt as to whether there is a fit, the albums title is quarantine and its first track is titled airsick no one would be surprised if labelhead kode9 issued productions of his own with those exact titles. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Laurel halo is a producer and electronic musician from ann arbor, michigan, united states.
Laurel halo s quarantine, released on hyperdub records, follows hot on the heels of dean blunt and inga copelands black is beautiful recorded for the same label and is not unlike that album in that it too is uncategorisable and will probably appeal to a similar audience. Laurel halo, interview with the quietus, 2011 theres a lot of weight to the word dust, in terms of a process of change, or a process of becoming, or a process of re my sound is probably a matter of simultaneously having that nomind mentality, that floating in the ether quality, while still having an amount of soul and a. Since her initially selfreleased debut, the king felix ep, first garnered attention back in 2010, since her initially. At first it glows with warmth, but after a while dissonant chords cool the mood. Quarantine, her debut album and first release on hyperdub, is her most focused and evolved recording yet. Listen free to laurel halo quarantine airsick, years and more. Drawing from a range of music lineages, her considered approach has enabled her to maintain a signature.
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