{"product_id":"pastoral","title":"Pastoral","description":"\u003cp\u003e“What species is this? What century?” Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that “there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the “quaint”. The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui. Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, \u003ci\u003ePastoral \u003c\/i\u003ewill be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP Unflesh (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz’s J.G. Ballard-inspired A\/V show \u003ci\u003eKingdom Come\u003c\/i\u003e (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England. As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin “The Composer, Musician and Producer” has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholz’s signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of ‘90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory. In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin “The Artist and Performer”, constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century. The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and Danger. “It” (not “she”) hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The “Ye Olde” and “The Everyman” of the English cliché. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelle’s, and a mad, fixed Grin - first glimpsed in the single, \u003ci\u003eHobby Horse\u003c\/i\u003e. A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Red Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP++ - Limited Repress on Green Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anti Ghost Moon Ray","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50497900183883,"sku":"1040480","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50497899725131,"sku":"1040481","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497901035851,"sku":"1040479","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/70b63945-936d-4239-9264-9b6022da5853_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727734745","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/pastoral","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}