{"product_id":"my-skyscraper","title":"My Skyscraper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Skyscraper\u003c\/em\u003e represents 40 years or so of works, re-works and works-forever-in-progress of one Steven Hall, aka Nirosta Steel — son of Scotland; step-son of the United States of America; adopted Daddy of Taiwan; Five-Star General in the Buddhist Army; legendary horndog stickman (we have pics!); friend, neighbour, collaborator and co-conspirator of Arthur Russell; and one of the most jawdroppingly sincere songwriting voices you’ll hear in this wretched modern era. Sure, that’s a metric fuck-ton of descriptors for a single person. But it's sorta impossible to capture the full scope of this human being named Steven Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Skyscraper\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t really even scratch at the surface of his output. But it’s always a rare and specific constellation of ideas and motifs: queer love songs — night life, giddy desire and odes to lovers of yesterday. There’s the anti-vibrato ethos he shared with Russell always present in the vocal stretches and horn performances. Sexy AF window-buffet disco. Cloudfolk earlobe-lick confessionals. Post-rave sauna-wave. We culled ‘My Skyscraper’ from a few hours-worth of longform mixes Hall sent to us last year. Right away, we noted he also shares with Russell a forever-sculpting approach to songcraft. A folk version of a song here; clubbed out disco version of that same one over there. An absolutely maniacal organisational process that had us triple-checking our metadata.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulyssa","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":57873647829323,"sku":"R2066-6588","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_aa0a917f-6f96-4898-baee-86db30ebd2ed.jpg?v=1784134585","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/my-skyscraper","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}