Tales From The Shadowlands
by Understated Theory
FLESH MECHANIC
FLESH MECHANIC
Can't stress enough how interesting this album is. Naturally this is 100% headphones material, you just have to be as fully immersed as possible, because every background sound has a meaning on this record. It's an album about a barren wasteland, but one that has sparks of hope, as some of the music indicates some sort of a new beginning for this landscape. I absolutely recommend this.
Favorite track: Solar Refraction.
In.Visible.Generator
In.Visible.Generator
Impressive work. Highest recomments on this narrative audio journey. A immaginative walk through an post apocalyptic wasteland.
Steve Hauley
The Silences
otomstreet
Andy Birkin
MII
Tom Herdman
Giants of Discovery
bublikozavr34
Everyday Dust
ilistenclose
Ronan Considine
Victor
Decky999
Fredrik Oestroem
pietrobot
Stationary Travels (Brian)
jaffathehutt
Eddy Richman
Tom Ståle Engebretsen
Music Won't Save You
Biifurcatiion
Käptain Blaubär
Darien Panama
This Is Darkness
Drifting, Almost Falling / Adrift, At Sea
Ews Nsj
Dustin K
Zenjungle
Thomas Groß
Nobody
Sorrow Floats
Mattie
jah16
wests
comwily
lecster
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No Man's Land
04:34
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A Semblence of Embers
08:44
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As the Ashes Washed Away
06:24
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Beyond The Shadowlands
06:00
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Valley of the Lost
05:41
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Solar Refraction
09:24
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Afterworld
07:52
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about
"Tales From The Shadowlands is a mesmerizing collection of textural ambient layers that sway into and out of focus, like lost memories slowly reemerging in the far recesses of the brain. It’s quite simply a captivating, surreal, and dystopian gravitational arch worth every minute of your time." - Pietro Da Sacco, Igloo Magazine
"The album's constructions, so dense they verge on impenetrable, are powerfully evocative, and consequently nothing more than the music itself is needed to conjure the image of a decimated landscape clinging to life in the wake of catastrophe of some unidentified kind."
- Textura.org
Tales From The Shadowlands, is the second full-length album by Understated Theory, following 2015's debut "Juxtapparition" (also released on Sparkwood).
With each of the two half behind the project bringing new perspectives from their respective solo-endeavours to the drawing table - Tom Moore (Dead Melodies) and Colin Crighton (nil.co, Sorrow Floats) -
Understated Theory leaves the vast expanse of treacherous seas (Critical Drift EP and Juxtapparition) to continue their journey across dry land. The desolation blues remains however, as we follow in the footsteps of what might be one of the few survivors roaming a post-apocalyptic wasteland, commonly just referred to as “The Shadowlands”.
“Solomon clambered from under the rubble to the deserted world. An eerie silence consumed the air punctuated only by the lone rattle of a rusted sign hanging from the service station wall and the wisp of a dry breeze shifting dust lazily across the abandoned forecourt. Devoid of life, the dying radio’s soft crackle ebbed to silence as he made his move into the cool dawn in his search for others.
Across the broken earth the skies lade heavy with the portent of impending doom growing with each new ghost town resembling the last like beads strung out on a relic highway of dust and decay. As the dying embers of day melted into the darkness he began to accept that the past was a thing long lost and the future held nothing to find but a pitiful existence scratched out on a barren world....
The rising sun pulled and tore at the morning mist revealing a rust red sediment that clung hungrily to every surface imbuing the senses with wretched dereliction. Heading north through shadowed ravines and burnt out plains; creeping slowly, barely tangible to the senses he felt eyes upon him, prickling his skin, promising hope and twisting illusions in his jaded mind. He peaked a hill and sank to his knees before a vision of yesterday; a flash of green through the red as a cruel reminder snuffed out as the clouds deepened and descended like a solid mass from above. Days, weeks, months passed then a pop and a crackle and his heart lurched; the radio spoke a language of interference but a language still. A glimmer of hope, a thread of something once lost, a connection, an ear and a voice to share in his tales of the shadowlands...”
"The album's constructions, so dense they verge on impenetrable, are powerfully evocative, and consequently nothing more than the music itself is needed to conjure the image of a decimated landscape clinging to life in the wake of catastrophe of some unidentified kind."
- Textura.org
Tales From The Shadowlands, is the second full-length album by Understated Theory, following 2015's debut "Juxtapparition" (also released on Sparkwood).
With each of the two half behind the project bringing new perspectives from their respective solo-endeavours to the drawing table - Tom Moore (Dead Melodies) and Colin Crighton (nil.co, Sorrow Floats) -
Understated Theory leaves the vast expanse of treacherous seas (Critical Drift EP and Juxtapparition) to continue their journey across dry land. The desolation blues remains however, as we follow in the footsteps of what might be one of the few survivors roaming a post-apocalyptic wasteland, commonly just referred to as “The Shadowlands”.
“Solomon clambered from under the rubble to the deserted world. An eerie silence consumed the air punctuated only by the lone rattle of a rusted sign hanging from the service station wall and the wisp of a dry breeze shifting dust lazily across the abandoned forecourt. Devoid of life, the dying radio’s soft crackle ebbed to silence as he made his move into the cool dawn in his search for others.
Across the broken earth the skies lade heavy with the portent of impending doom growing with each new ghost town resembling the last like beads strung out on a relic highway of dust and decay. As the dying embers of day melted into the darkness he began to accept that the past was a thing long lost and the future held nothing to find but a pitiful existence scratched out on a barren world....
The rising sun pulled and tore at the morning mist revealing a rust red sediment that clung hungrily to every surface imbuing the senses with wretched dereliction. Heading north through shadowed ravines and burnt out plains; creeping slowly, barely tangible to the senses he felt eyes upon him, prickling his skin, promising hope and twisting illusions in his jaded mind. He peaked a hill and sank to his knees before a vision of yesterday; a flash of green through the red as a cruel reminder snuffed out as the clouds deepened and descended like a solid mass from above. Days, weeks, months passed then a pop and a crackle and his heart lurched; the radio spoke a language of interference but a language still. A glimmer of hope, a thread of something once lost, a connection, an ear and a voice to share in his tales of the shadowlands...”
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released August 2, 2018
written, performed and produced by Tom Moore and Colin Crighton
artwork and design by K. Solheim and Understated Theory
soundcloud.com/understated-theory
written, performed and produced by Tom Moore and Colin Crighton
artwork and design by K. Solheim and Understated Theory
soundcloud.com/understated-theory
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Sparkwood Records Norway
Small independent label based in Norway, with focus on ambient, drone and left field electronic music.
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