{"title":"People Like Us","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"welcome-abroad","title":"Welcome Abroad","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her “free” time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Now strangely echoed by the Covid-19 outbreak and the various grounding of planes and stay at home policies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the general mashup culture often centres on the instant gratification of seamlessly juxtaposing hooks, People Like Us tracks transform the source material into collages that are equal parts dissonance and pleasure, making artful commentaries on our culture and Bennett’s own existential amusement within such a wondrous world. No one could have predicted how relevant this album would have been 10 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolcanoes or Viruses, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e is what happens when you’re stranded due to a freak natural occurrence trapping people all over the world and causing mass plane cancellations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discrepant","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50475075010891,"sku":"1117439","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e44d9721-3acc-49ab-83f0-f19c0b51d20c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727442186"},{"product_id":"the-mirror","title":"The Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreviously released on CD accompanied by \u003ci\u003eGone, Gone Beyond, The Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is the dreamy soundtrack of an a\/v project from collage artist extraordinaire Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e Bennett continues her eternal disassembling of popular music by exploring how the narrative of familiar sounds \/ songs can change dramatically under a new context, with that context always changing, in a never-ending flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach song is singular. And each song is a collage of and undefined number of other songs from other artists. It sounds familiar because that has been the modus operandi of People Like Us since the early 1990s. But \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror \u003c\/i\u003eplays with the notion of familiar, driving around a collection of famous pop songs \/ artists, messing around with the memory of the listener and, of course, his unique comprehension of those specific songs applied in a new context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of the use of familiar pop sounds,\u003ci\u003e The Mirror \u003c\/i\u003eis often grandiose. Like an epic film only with highs, never letting the listener down or letting him doubt the power of pop. Even, of course, when the coordinates are twisted, mixed, over or underrepresented. Each moment feels like something that could only happen in a parallel universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discrepant","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50868094107979,"sku":"1075989","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/31600489-1cc3-47ab-8c7b-0163eddfeffe_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732123357"},{"product_id":"copia-1","title":"Copia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople Like Us, the project of artist Vicki Bennet returns to Discrepant with a special vinyl release of Copia. This album marks the first new musical material since \"The Mirror\" in 2018, delving into the profound realms of existential collage and sampling, celebrating these forms as expressions of timeless connectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title \u003cem\u003eCopia,\u003c\/em\u003e meaning 'abundance' and 'copy,' reflects the essence of collage and sampling - art created not in isolation, but as a connective thread through time and space, linking ideas across generations in a seamless tapestry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy reconfiguring preexisting sounds and images, Bennet highlights the non-dual nature of creation — where distinctions between past, present, and future possibilities blur, revealing a shared foundation beneath. The album marks a return to not just solo works but collaborations with notable artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the new People Like Us live AV performance, \"The Library of Babel,\" sampling and edited sound collage, electronic music, combined with Ergo Phizmiz's lyrics and melodies, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCopia\u003c\/em\u003e weaves and recombines a timeless blend of diverse elements that transcends traditional musical boundaries. This creative process unfolded through the exchange of multitracks across both water and ether. Collaborating with the voices, instruments and editing timelines of Matmos, Hearty White, Gwilly Edmondez, Lotte Bowater, Buttress O’Kneel, Douglas Benford, Irene Moon, Jon Leidecker, and Matt Warwick, the work evolved exquisite corpse-style. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Discrepant","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51496553251147,"sku":"R0263-5177","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a0799915588_10.jpg?v=1742586994"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/people-like-us.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}