For The Tired And Ill At ease

Posted On: December 21, 2011
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Very excited to announce that our first ever vinyl release is ready and waiting to be released through Facture on 25.12.11. A lot of love and care has gone into this project and a big thanks goes out to Ian Hazeldine for design support and John McCaffrey for his continued patience and sublime musical compositions. As usual those on the mailing list will have the opportunity of pre-ordering the album over the next day or so. For full release info head over to the Facture web site.

Reviews so far:

The music is graceful, the mood dream-like, and the tempos slow and ponderous—a combination conducive to meditation, reflection, and mental drift that proves potent, no matter the precise nature of one’s religious orientation. – Textura

Returning to the Scissors and Sellotape alias he used for a Cotton Goods release in 2009, we find him at his most layered, fragile state, arranging gossamer piano motifs over crumbling bass sounds and spacious field recordings, all with a meticulously nimble feel for texture and atmosphere. – Boomkat

For the Tired and Ill at Ease comes wrapped in the grand reverb of St Mary’s Church in Thornbury – the intimacy arrives as an embrace from all sides, with an emotional immediacy of soft notes and pedal clunks neatly juxtaposed with a sense of time blurred and distorted by the washes of echo. – ATTN Magazine

Falling between the modern minimal tinkly likes of Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds and the more composed ambient/drone types like Stars Of The Lid or A Winged Victory For The Sullen. – Norman Records

This album simply discovered me. All of its little quirks (the glitching on here is tastefully done) simply work towards making an emotional, dramatic statement. “For the Tired and Ill at Ease” is an instantly enjoyable, emotional, and oftentimes physical album. – Beach Sloth

A beautiful, haunting album of elegant minimal piano melodies. – Morpheus Music

Fitting fine inbetween recent projects of people like Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Clem Leek. – Ambient Blog

Music that has it’s own fluorescence which is not visible to the human eye, but always favorable for ours souls. – Blear Moon

The listener could easily lay their own emotional interpretation over these gentle soundscapes – extremely fitting and complementary to the album’s backstory. – Binge Cringe Winge

This ambient composition weaves a delicate work of subtle melodies, voices, whispers evocative of nostalgia and beauty. – Loop