01. Otto Lindholm — Cain 11:16
02. Pan Daijing — The Island Within 5:00
03. Lanark Artefax — Styx 4:48
04. Petit Singe — Komm Wieder Mit 5:48
05. Peder Mannerfelt — Post Sense Perspective 3:51
06. Tomoko Sauvage — In Some Brighter Sphere 5:10
07. Pye Corner Audio — Box In A Box 5:02
08. Sophia Loizou — Shadows Of Futurity 4:46
09. Abul Mogard — Trembling With Tenderness 8:04
10. Pär Grindvik — Speaking Their Minds 3:37
11. Koenraad Ecker — Rat's Coat 7:35
12. Roly Porter — Without Form 7:30
13. Hodge — Sunlight On A Broken Column 5:54
14. Gazelle Twin — The Dream Ends 3:21
15. Shapednoise — Ghostly Metafiction 6:16
16. ASC — Tessellate 5:45
17. Batu — Zoo Hypothesis 3:19
18. We Will Fail — Carbon Trail 4:22
19. Peter Van Hoesen — 98 Lines 3:59
20. Spatial — Haunted Dance Hall 5:31
21. Yves De Mey —Solemn But Fading 6:08
22. Mindspan Accept — Things As They Are 3:22
23. Kangding Ray — Glacier 7:49
24. Zov Zov — Post Six 10:40
25. Ian William Craig — An End Of Rooms 6:36
https://houndstoothlabel.bandcamp.com/album/in-deaths-dream-kingdom Quote
In Death's Dream Kingdom is a voyage into the unknown for Houndstooth and all the artists on it.
It represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of TS Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration. The resulting 25 tracks will be released, one by one, together with further online texts, and extraordinary artwork by Jazz Szu-Ying Chen, to build into a new kind of audio-visual artefact. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.
It's a well-deserved chance for the label to flex its... more
released January 26, 2018
