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These wry gear changes, fermented samples and knee-wiggling tempos evoke a microbiome of ecstatic activity.\nRecommended if you like Elysia Crampton, The Residents, Panda Bear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kit Records","offers":[{"title":"Tape.","offer_id":50386589024587,"sku":"2173706","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_8c417172_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726326274"},{"product_id":"love-is-yes","title":"Love Is Yes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove Is Yes is the first album by Sander van der Toorn and Dax Niesten, an audio-visual duo de force of the same name.\n\nThis heady debut is rooted equally in the worlds of fine art and experimental music. Sound and image meld wonderfully across 10 tracks, with shifting movements of music accompanied by a wealth of paintings and animations.\n\nNiesten's work summons the likes of Philip Guston and Maurice Sendak - with its crestfallen, cartoonish voids and cockle-warming grotesquery. Serenely contorted creatures are rendered on large canvases, and brought to fuzzy, maudlin life through a full-length animation that can be viewed alongside the record.\n\nMusically, the pair cite influences ranging from Vashti Bunyan to Morton Feldman. There is an ornate fragility, smeared by zero gravity focus shifts. Some glimpses suggest a corroded grail of Boards of Canada samples; motorik guitar, whispered messages, euphoric vistas and tangled memories all bathing in atomic glow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kit Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50400095764811,"sku":"2179052","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_0f837535_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726510350"},{"product_id":"lp10","title":"LP10","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon producer Kel McKeown celebrates the release of his tenth album as Kelpe, with a vinyl edition of uncategorisable dance music on Kit Records.\n\nKelpe's work combines live drumming with synthesis and guitars. Like the nine records that came before it, LP10 treads the line between gauzy melancholia and bustling, dancefloor-ready energy.\n\nListening to Kelpe's music can feel like fluttering through a photo album at speed. Familiar faces and locations are revealed, nostalgic scenes assembled then scattered by unruly rhythms and samples.\n\nAnalogue percussion takes centre stage on LP10. This restless drumming - gear-shifting from hip-hop through to jungle - showcases McKeown's chops as an instrumentalist, while harking back to the scrambled beats that were a hallmark of his early releases.\n\nKelpe has worked closely with the visual artist Nikita Iziev on this record. Inspired by pioneering film director John Schlesinger, the serendipitous geometry of new wave cinema is mapped out in fractured moments across the music and artwork.\n\nWhile the track 'Schlesinger' echoes the bouncing unpredictability of the sleeve, 'The Palace Guard Loop' pours neon fertiliser over fender rhodes jazz keys. Adrenalin reaches a zenith on 'Events Proved Me Wrong', as Kelpe hits his stride for a homespun drum and bass workout.\n\nLP10 will be the final full length Kelpe album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kit Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50400141508939,"sku":"2179050","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_75986d93_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726510689"},{"product_id":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-american","title":"What Does It Mean to Be American?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Does it Mean to Be American?\u003c\/i\u003e is the eighth solo album by Maine-born, UK-based composer \u0026amp; multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman. 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