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Alexis releases his sixth and strongest solo album to date, \u003cem\u003eSilence\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMostly composed in enforced isolation, \u003cem\u003eSilence\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully rich and unexpected conceptual album that is also Alexis’ most accomplished solo record and one that has seen early comparisons with a notably eclectic range of artists including Mark Hollis, George Michael, Big Star, Epic Soundtracks and Maher Shalal Hash Baz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis record sees the first time Alexis has collaborated with Sam Becker (double bass), Kenichi Iwasa (horn, trumpet) and Rachel Horton-Kitchlew (harp), who due to lockdown had to work in isolation from Alexis. In one case Kenichi recorded musical passages which were then superimposed on songs he had never heard - in effect keeping the songs themselves silent from the playing until the mixes were played to him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orbistor","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50454611722571,"sku":"1126791","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0d35c621-00ed-4fad-831f-4fe7ec4fe35e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727185004"},{"product_id":"beautiful-thing","title":"Beautiful Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexis Taylor releases a new album on Domino. It is a very new, very individualist and – yes – very beautiful reflection of a life that's changed immeasurably since Alexis first started out in music. This is a musician, writer and singer who has carved his own unique path through the music of the 21st century, completely avoiding getting trapped along the way in dumb oppositions of pop vs avant-garde, dancefloor vs intellect, retro vs modernist and so on. He has worked with living legends from major pop stars to free improvisors in the furthest left field, played huge arenas and tiny clubs without ever privileging one over the other, and through all of it, never stopped listening and learning. All of this accumulated experience is put to work on \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Thing \u003c\/i\u003ein pursuit of something subtle and elusive but ultimately quite profound and beautifully human. Taylor’s fourth album also represents the first time Alexis has made a solo album with a producer, that producer being Tim Goldsworthy, co-founder of Mo Wax and DFA Recordings and member of UNKLE. The record is a bold and confident step forward for Alexis both sonically and in terms of his songwriting abilities. It has electronic thrills, dark spaces, memories of dancefloors, heartfelt writing; it's composed, it's improvised, it's accidental, it's strange, but it's also very immediate. 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It’s where British Americana meets Gallic flair, somewhere on Mars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThankfully, no synths were harmed in the making of the album. The title references a psychological test where things are not as they seem. “You have to look for those double meanings, or what’s hiding under the surface.” Ultimately, this is an album about freedom from constraints, from preconceptions, from genre. 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