Tracklist:

Act Of – I am Fungus
Static Animal – See You Around
Skirts – Brite Boy (Alex G cover)
Space Mountain – Cloud
Alexander – Going To Sleep
German Error Message – Murmuring
Thelma – Take Me To Orlando
Jeffrey Silverstein – Make Yr Peace (And Have It Too)
camp counselor – museum of broken relationships
Spartan Jet-Plex – Stop
Lala Lala & Why? – Siren 042
Shrimpwitch – Leerers
Sir Babygirl – Flirting With Her
Spielbergs – Five On It
Stella Donnelly – Lunch
Mentalease – Avert a Gaze
Priests – The Seduction of Kansas
Mike Pace and The Child Actors – Hazy, Hot & Humid
Swim Camp – Circle K
BURLY – Kent Lame
Miserable chillers – Cider Palace
Imp of Perverse – Tripping Thru a Hallway On Fire
Go Fever – Olivia
Polyan – Dan Song
Morning River Band – Bury Me
Nigel Wright – Overcast
Denmark – I Know
Sister Wanzala – I Went Whaling in My Gap Year
Body Meat – Nairobi Flex
Derek Piotr – Repeating Bloom (Simon Whetham Remix)
Michael Chinworth – Good As It Gets
Mesa Luna – Dispel
yot club – jaded

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Nowhere is this clearer than the new EP from Michael Chinworth. Three Vapours straddles the popular and idiosyncratic, collecting three avant garde hymns that draw upon all of his musical career to date. The emotional dimension is equally nuanced, loneliness and rejection collided with a keen sense of hope. Each of the songs takes a different tack in relation to suffering or obsession, from “assimilating it into normalcy,” to “leaving it raw and exposed like a live wire,” or else “exhausting the expression to the point that it finally falls silent.”

We’re delighted to share the first single from the release. ‘Good As It Gets’ serves as a neat summation of Chinworth’s aesthetic, the soundscape built gradually from a multitude of elements. From the gentle reserve of the opening notes to the sorrowful tone of the first lines, the track assembles with each rhythmic cycle, growing fuller and richer and eventually peaking in bright climax.

The track picks through the ashes of a failed relationship and blows into the embers, rekindling not the old feelings but rather the attenuated spirit that crawled from beneath them. So, while the repeated line of “maybe loving you was as good as it gets” suggests a pessimism or hopelessness, the sounds of the song coalesce into a redemptive glow, a pilot light of sorts that shows life will go on.

Three Vapours is set for release on the 22nd February and you can pre-order it now.

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