The Inheritors, by Holden

The Inheritors

by Holden

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dag_nabbhett there's a vibe across all of Mr. Holden's various projects that just works for me. fantastic stuff.

pinknoise Great stuff, evocative of some mid-70s German bands and yet the titles reference the landscapes of Wales, Scotland and England. An interesting collection of moods. For me, the highlights are the wilder pieces, such as Illuminations, Gone Feral and the title track. But I wouldn’t want them without the context of the rest of the album.

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1.	Rannoch Dawn 04:24	buy track
2.	\|\|: A Circle Inside A Circle Inside :\|\| 06:08	buy track
3.	Renata 05:56	buy track
4.	The Caterpillar's Intervention 04:03	buy track
5.	Sky Burial 04:25	buy track
6.	The Illuminations 03:12	buy track
7.	Inter-City 125 05:28	buy track
8.	Delabole 03:43	buy track
9.	Seven Stars 05:48	buy track
10.	Gone Feral 06:22	buy track
11.	The Inheritors 04:53	buy track
12.	Circle Of Fifths 03:01	buy track
13.	Some Respite 04:29	buy track
14.	Blackpool Late Eighties 08:37	buy track
15.	Self-Playing Schmaltz 04:46	buy track

about

An astonishing seven years has now elapsed since the release of James Holden‘s milestone debut album The Idiots Are Winning in 2006, rightfully acclaimed in such quarters as The Guardian as “The most astonishing debut in electronic music since Boards of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’”. But June 2013 sees Holden finally return in a big way, with a brand new artist album of suitably epic proportions: 75 minute long English pagan saga The Inheritors. A bold, psychedelic journey, striking a delicate balance between weighty tome and transformative trip, and with a production aesthetic that is all his own: Holden is certain that this is the album that he always wanted to make. Nobody is making electronic music as explorative as this.

Whilst the title is borrowed from William Golding’s novel about the extinction of a tribe of Neanderthals, ‘The Inheritors’ takes much inspiration from the sound- and landscapes alike of Holden’s native Britain: Elgar, The KLF, field recordings and British folk music form the musical palette in which evocations of Blackpool, Scotland’s Rannoch Moor and Cornwall’s ‘Delabole’ are captured. Yet ultimately the universe in which Holden immerses us is very much his own: “I wanted it to be a whole new world, a mythology, complete. As opposed to a product in a cycle: an old-fashioned idealistic version of what an album is.”

As Holden returns to the production frontier after his seven years spent wandering in the desert, The Inheritors is certainly every bit the grand statement of a comeback that it ought to be.

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released June 24, 2013

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James Holden London, UK

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Dec 01

Velodrom

Berlin, Germany
Feb 03

Barbican Centre

London, UK
Aug 31

Manchester Psych Fest

Manchester, UK

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