{"title":"ThemThere Records","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"steady-2","title":"Steady","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe central theme of Steady is perseverance. Each track is based on a personal story or a fleeting encounter with people these past few years, from close friends to total strangers, either at home or on night shift commutes. People navigating their own hardships, almost giving up but always struggling through. More broadly, it’s about multiplicity, and contradiction. These central figures displaying hope and determination within a city of development and neglect, uniformity and chaos - an unfiltered representation of a city with all its jagged edges, darkness, and shards of light. It's broken and disheveled, but never not beautiful, just like the people in it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, Steady continues where Bleach (debut album) left off - a sonic language of glitch, decaying tape and analogue distortion through which hints of RnB and soulful ballads bleed through. With a greater emphasis on beats, albeit lopsided on pitch-shifted tape loops, Steady feels more self-assured, more confident, more recognisable. At the same time, it's never stable or predictable - choruses break down early, harmonies bend into beating microtones, tracks emerge before others have finished. The symphonic scope of Bleach is still retained in Steady though. This is music of motivic development, of micro and macro form, of meticulous refining. The work of two classically trained composers, the album's chaos is heavily considered and carefully shaped. Hours of improvisation sessions have since been painstakingly refined into ten distilled tracks, owing to Steady's three year gestation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ThemThere Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50406771687755,"sku":"2053943","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2785814283_10_77a2c9f7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726590703"},{"product_id":"concede-to-circumstance","title":"Concede to Circumstance","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Preston, Lancashire by Joshua Horsley and Carl Brown Mixed by Joshua Horsley and Carl Brown. Mastered by Tim Crompton. Joshua Horsley and Carl Brown deliver the debut Powders album ‘Concede To Circumstance’ via Them There. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInitially starting as an experimental live project of Cello (Horsley) and Electronics (Brown) the duo gained attention for their semi-improvised onstage performances. What began as sample-heavy collage music in 2018 slowly shifted as the pair crafted new live sets to embrace classical and noise music, always treated with an experimental spirit and minimalist sleight. ‘Concede to Circumstance’ is a refining of these ideas, a distillation of sounds and feelings, boiled down to a highly concentrated tincture made from extracts of live shows, film scores, jams and sketches. Powders stripped back the set up for these album sessions, this time leaning more heavily on the use of granular synthesis with cello as the lead instrument and sound source. Horsley’s cello is processed in real-time as Brown mangles the signal into sonic debris in a rugged synergy of new musical expression that finds the soft hues of fourth world placed alongside coursegrit distortion that resists the trappings of contemporary cello music. A shared admiration for early Playstation game scores underpins the work as each track aims to realise another scene in high definition. As if moving through the levels of a late 90’s RPG set in a drenched and darkened, distinctly Northern context. ‘Concede to Circumstance’ sees Powders exploring their hometown of Preston and its longstanding experimental underbelly - not as a location that demands escapism, elsewhere aspiration or an outward face but as a place and din to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ThemThere Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50430689935691,"sku":"2051332","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/powders_1e5e4a1d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726850837"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/themthere-records.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}