{"product_id":"knock-knock","title":"Knock Knock","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike all \u003cstrong\u003eDJ Koze\u003c\/strong\u003e records, \u003cem\u003eKnock Knock\u003c\/em\u003e exists outside of trend and influence. In fact, it's a step further beyond: absolutely every single thing here, from grooves to voices to handclaps, is otherworldly and unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhich is not to say it is utterly alien abstraction, mind. There is still disco, there is still soul, there is still techno, there is still hip hop, there is still psychedelia – there are even wafts of easy listening, lost crackly thriftstore record memories and... sort of... indie rock – but though it may sound familiar, it never does what your brain thinks it's going to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLikewise with the voices. More than ever before on \u003cstrong\u003eKoze\u003c\/strong\u003e's records, there are fascinating, individualist – and well-known – voices throughout \u003cem\u003eKnock Knock\u003c\/em\u003e but again, each of them is rendered strange, drawn into a different reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBon Iver\u003c\/strong\u003e's ghostly hymnals on \"\u003cem\u003eBonfire\u003c\/em\u003e\" are very recognizably \u003cstrong\u003eBon Iver\u003c\/strong\u003e, but the way they twist and merge with synthetic sounds until choir and computer are writhing around one another in bliss are something else. The ever-unique \u003cstrong\u003eRóisín Murphy\u003c\/strong\u003e, on two stunning tracks, becomes a cyborg funk diva. \u003cstrong\u003eSpeech\u003c\/strong\u003e from \u003cem\u003eArrested Development\u003c\/em\u003e delivers luscious and lazy R\u0026amp;B-funk on \"\u003cem\u003eColors of Autumn\u003c\/em\u003e,\" but \u003cstrong\u003eKoze\u003c\/strong\u003e's warping bass, dubwise echo, and alien nature sounds take it to an alternate dimension tropical landscape. \u003cstrong\u003eKurt Wagner\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cem\u003eLambchop\u003c\/em\u003e is a vocoder bohemian, \u003cstrong\u003eSophia Kennedy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sci-fi Weimar cabaret star, \u003cstrong\u003eJosé Gonzalez\u003c\/strong\u003e a holographic projection from an old film of South Sea Islands... on it goes, nothing is real, everyone is an inhabitant of \u003cstrong\u003eKoze\u003c\/strong\u003e-world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd that's what is crucial here. \u003cstrong\u003eKoze\u003c\/strong\u003e is a world-maker. You don't get to choose how you hear his music – you enter his world or you don't, that's it. And that's why individual influences, whether it's the trippy German techno that's always rippled through his albums or the beat-scene abstract hip hop that he incorporated into his DJ-Kicks mix in 2015, are all but irrelevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough he'd never compare himself to anyone else, \u003cstrong\u003eKoze\u003c\/strong\u003e only makes sense in the way that other world-builders do, from \u003cstrong\u003eBowie\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003eSun Ra\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOutkast\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003eKate Bush\u003c\/strong\u003e. And \u003cem\u003eKnock Knock\u003c\/em\u003e is far and away his greatest statement of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's an album that came together slowly and steadily, his working processes arcane and mysterious in their steady accumulation of sound and inspiration. It's so complete and bursting with detail and consistency from every micro-second that you'd swear it was meticulously planned – but there was no masterplan, no desire to create a definitive artifact: the record itself decided when it was ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd now it is ready, the most perfectly constructed portal into that other world, you had better be ready too! 2LP - Double Vinyl with 7\". 4LP - The Box set contains the double LP of the album with the 7 inch, the album on CD (standard Digipack), an extra 10” with three exclusive tracks, bonus single LP with the instrumental tracks and an album art poster. CD - 8 Page Digipack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pampa","offers":[{"title":"LP | x4","offer_id":50469842092363,"sku":"1027447","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50469844681035,"sku":"1027446","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50469845107019,"sku":"1027444","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e39e3b97-12af-47fd-b8cc-c8618eefb544_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727368321","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/knock-knock","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}