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Dengie Hundred
Brackenbank
Debut solo album from The Dengie Hundred, one half of London's Blackwater whose slo-motion synth-pop LP 'Navigation' was
acclaimed by cult record shops Monorail, All Night Flight and World of Echo, which included it in its review of the best
releases of 2021. Named after a clifftop cabin overlooking Whitsand Bay in Cornwall's 'forgotten corner', 'Brackenbank'
charts the first weeks of a new relationship between long-distance lovers in London and the South West. Desiring vocals
move like the tide toward and away from drones and dub-soaked drum machines that recall heart beats, train tracks, the
clinks of boat rigs and clunks of ferry chains. Composed of sounds recorded in an unfamiliar landscape of sea and rock
and sky, 'Brackenbank's' electronic sonic atmosphere was processed on the lines of the Great Western Railway as The
Dengie Hundred travelled back and forth: looking forward; longing after. Kingsand, Cawsand, Eddystone, Firestone - the
album's grid references are both geographical and emotional, offering love songs and instrumentals as pulsing trances
from places that can be traced with a finger across the map of The Rame, Cornwall's 'most unsung' peninsula.
"Comparisons are odious but inevitable", so we suggest touches of Wire, Martin Hannett's pensive moments, gawd knows,
Eno? Possible threads of all these and more, but cast in the Dengie's singular sound-world of twilight marshes, rusting
hulks and unearthly train stations.
Brackenbank was mastered by Carim Clasmann, mastered and cut for vinyl by Stefan Betke (aka Pole).
Price
€ 27.95
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
26-09-2022
Label
Item-nr
525674
EAN
0000000000000
Availability
Exp. 26-09-2022