Village Compass (豆瓣)

表演者: My Autumn Empire
专辑类型: Extra tracks
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2010-09-21
出版者: Thomason Sounds
唱片数: 1
条形码: 4532813130354

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　　My Autumn Empire is Benjamin Thomas Holton from pastoral superkings Epic 45. My Autumn Empire is Mr Ben's side project which he does when Epic 45 are on fag breaks or something. Hey we all need a vice. Mine? I like watching people put shoes on and then taking them off.... it's brilliant. Anyway here sees Ben on a more singer songwritery/ folky tip. It's a bunch of songs recor... (展开全部) 　　My Autumn Empire is Benjamin Thomas Holton from pastoral superkings Epic 45. My Autumn Empire is Mr Ben's side project which he does when Epic 45 are on fag breaks or something. Hey we all need a vice. Mine? I like watching people put shoes on and then taking them off.... it's brilliant. Anyway here sees Ben on a more singer songwritery/ folky tip. It's a bunch of songs recorded between 2005 and 2008 and the sound is a very simple one. It has a clean and stripped-back sound which is soothing on the ears. The album is centered around the idea of life in a remote village (Epic 45 are the real pastoral deal) and wanting to enjoy the simple life (and probably kick the nearest city really hard in its stupid smog ridden face). It's all very earnest and honest sounding. I think fans of Epic 45 will approve as there's a few tracks on there with 'their sound' with some light electronics kicking around in the background. You can't but help think of the countryside when you're listening to this.... sunny days, green fields, pretty girs on bikes, that kind of thing. There's deffo some hints of Bibio in there and overall you get a whopping feel of nostalgia stroking your face. Essentially though, it's a gentle slow paced album which is charming, delicate and extremely pleasing on the ears. Proper lovely!
　　What their label says...
　　Under the name My Autumn Empire, epic45’s Ben Holton has been writing,recording and performing for over 9 years, doing gigs in France, Japan and Wolverhampton. Along the way, only a handfull of songs and tunes have been released into the wide world, an extremely limited collection entitled ‘Early Days - 2001 to 2005’ and a split release with fellow Wayside & Woodland artist The Toy Library (epic45’s Robert Glover) on Chat Blanc Records.
　　The Village Compass is the first full solo release from this project and is the result of recordings made during the period of 2005-2008. After a longperiod of mixing and mastering (courtesy of W&W’s Charles Vaughan) the album is finally seeing the light of day.
　　This album is a focused collection of compositions centered around the idea of life in a remote village. Far from being a dour, introspective record, the music conveys, in parts, a dreamlike state of self imposed isolation. However, all is not idyllic meditations.Lyrically, and in the titles, the songs and tunes deal with loss both on a personal and wider scale.For instance, ‘The Approach of the City’ is a look at the destruction of greenbelt areas and the gradual encroachment of residential and commercial development. Meanwhile, on tracks such as ‘Block Colours & Straight Lines’ and ‘Hatchlings’, it’s a yearning for simpler times and a retreat from the complexities of modern life however unfeasable and untenable that may be.
　　As far as musical references are concerned, the first place to look could be epic45’s own May your Heart be the Map album, itself a study on a particularly rural, isolated theme. Elsewhere, you can hear the ghost of Virginia Astley’s ‘From Gardens Where We Feel Secure’ in the air, hints of Bibio’s aged, cyclicle acoustics and the early work of Greg Davis.