In Another Life

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest In Another Life 180gram vinyl includes 12"x24" art print poster + 320kbps DL card. RIYL: Van Morrison, Morton Feldman, Destroyer, Bill Callahan, Yo La Tengo, Arthur Russell.. The first solo album from Sandro Perri since 2011's acclaimed Impossible Spaces (Best New Track, Top 50 Albums Of The Year Pitchfork). Features Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and Andr Ethier (The Deadly Snakes) as guest lead vocalists on the three-part opus Everybody's Paris Perri has been called 'one of the most singular producers in contemporary music' (Boomkat) and his long affiliation with Constellation through various electronic and singersongwriter guises (Polmo Polpo, Glissandro 70, Off World) has produced a uniquely adventurous and iconoclastic discography. In Another Life expands on this in peerless fashion. The new album is what Perri describes as 'an experiment in 'infinite' songwriting.' The title track is a 24-minute pop mantra for sequenced synth, piano, guitar and voice, progressing sideways rather than forward. A relaxed three-chord vamp runs the length of the album's Side One, peppered with Sandro's languid, lilting vocal and adorned with continually developing musical details massaging the listener with the joys of repetition while defying stasis and monotony. Like the longer-form work of fellow-travellers Bill Callahan, Destroyer or Arthur Russell, Perri extends the notion of the meditative minimalist pop song to its literal maximum, flouting 'commercial' concerns in our streamingly short-attention-span era and perhaps implicitly calling for a politics of slow consumption The lyric of In Another Life suggests as much, moving through bemused critiques and degrees of equivocation about unrealized utopias, culminating with the final stanza: 'Beyond the choice of create or destroy / inherit, steal, gift or employ / Fair is far too small a word we'd enjoy / In another life / So hold a promise no bigger than two hands / Hope scaled and re-read in human / And not reduced to a list of demands / In another life.' Side Two of In Another Life features a similar approach, though in a distinct 3-part series: Everybody's Paris begins with Perri on vocals, with the mic then handed over to Andr Ethier (The Deadly Snakes) and Dan Bejar (Destroyer) respectively, who each take a vocal turn singing lyrics of their own. Sandro calls this 'a song-cycle designed to accept any lyrical variation fed into it: a fill-in-the-blanks questionnaire in the form of a song.' Of course Everybody's Paris ends up being much more than this, with the evocative phrase of the song's title serving as the lyrical tent pole and recurring refrain an anchor point for signification and sentiment that intentionally belies the suggestion of anything prosaic or administrative about Perri's formal conceit. In the hands of these three master lyricists and voices and with Perri subtly reconfiguring the instrumentation and arrangements for each of the three parts 'Everybody's Paris' emerges as a profound and fitting sibling (a set of triplet brothers) to Side One's 'infinite' title track. The result is a gently yet enormously affecting album that basks thoughtfully and discerningly in a slow, sweet melancholia. In Another Life is a supremely listenable return to form for Sandro Perri, the music like a temporal analogue to a tender nature tableau registering slight changes under shifting light and a meditative gaze: at once appearing to signify only itself, while auguring the promise of harmonious life. Tracklist: 01 In Another Life 02 Everybody's Paris Pt 1 03 Everybody's Paris Pt 2 (feat. Andr Ethier) 04 Everybody s Paris Pt 3 (feat. Dan Bejar) Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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