{"product_id":"vertical-vignettes","title":"Vertical Vignettes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrating the 100th release on London's Kit Records, The Hague artist — and overseer of the esteemed Plafond and Rubber imprints — Ruben Verkuylen squints through the telescope to reveal a high-rise debut tape of constructivist electronics and domestic bricolage, as The Social Lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVertical Vignettes \u003c\/em\u003elooms benevolently like a cutaway apartment block of overlapping lives and skintled brickwork. These are less songs than scenes; inspired in equal measure by Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' and Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual', Verkuylen constructs a kind of sonic dollhouse, with each track offering a striking glimpse of parallel living arrangements and peculiar domestic rituals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA baby's scattered toys; a hand groping in the liquor cabinet; care and attention spent on a magnificent fruit tart. There is a mischievous logic to these tableaux: a sense of interconnected miniatures set in motion by the smallest gesture. Like Tati's intricately choreographed cityscapes, apparent chaos conceals a web of intimate connections. Incidental details assume unlikely significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerkuylen plays the benevolent voyeur - peering through windows and listening at walls, finding poetry in oddments of sonic furniture, the detritus of human existence. Pompous eccentrics, half-dreaming neighbours. Someone stirs beneath drawn curtains. A muffled gathering pours into the small hours. Outside, seagulls squabble as they peck at a mound of ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecommended if you like Joseph Shabason, Or Sobre Blau, Loto Retina, the Chevance series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kit Records","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":58806778167627,"sku":"R5698-3433","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki-1_7a8df6aa-442b-42d8-b1a5-c62dd1ac8f4a.jpg?v=1791811613","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/vertical-vignettes","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}