The Future Sound Of London - Environments 4

[purlieu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5eI9P-GEN0

 

 

Coming soon apparently.

Environments 3 was about 2/3 newly recorded material so I reckon this will be similar or, fingers crossed, all new. It's been nearly 2 years since they put anything out other than the last of the Archive records, so it seems they're slowly getting back into standard 'album every 18 months' mode again after the madness when FSOLDigital first appeared.

Some material from this was on their last podcast and sounded excellent, probably their most ambient sounding stuff to date.

[goDel]

The smart thing about releasing tracks under the "Archives" flag is that you can release fuck all without having to deal with whiny fanboys crying over the lack of innovation. Brilliant marketing!

[mcbpete]

This is Environments not Archives, completely different kettle o' fish ...

[goDel]

Haha

True. For me it's all the same though! Given the "Environments 3 was about 2/3 newly recorded material" ;p

[Redruth]

this gives us the warm and fuzzy feelings inside

[purlieu]

The Environments records are intended to be proper albums to listen to alongside their other records. A lot of stuff on them doesn't really sound like anything they'd released before, either, which is why I'm excited by this.

[Rubin Farr]

Looking forward to this and the Noel Gallagher album.

[BUNKUM]

I want. Just downloaded their Electric Brain Storms Vol. 7, not at all what I was expecting, very atmospheric and ambient, apparently lots of E4 tracks on it. Would like to hear the first 6 (or is it 7?) volumes but they have disappeared from FSOlDigital now.

[purlieu]

Apparently the licensing of tracks on them was costing too much money to keep selling them, which is why EBS7 is all FSOL/side-projects/friends. There were 7 more as there was a pre-EBS show which ended up named EBS0.5

[BUNKUM]

Apparently the licensing of tracks on them was costing too much money to keep selling them, which is why EBS7 is all FSOL/side-projects/friends. There were 7 more as there was a pre-EBS show which ended up named EBS0.5

 

Yeah, I had a look on Discogs, I will have to try and track them down... somehow...

[magdog]

Can't wait for E4!.. went to buy some Pod-room Kiss 100 Transmissions today to finish off the set, but they have been taken off the site too :(

[purlieu]

Out April 30th from stores/possibly earlier on FSOLDigital.

 

1. The Wheel Of Life

2. No Man's Land

3. River Delta

4. Supercontinents

5. Sediment

6. Architektur

7. Murmurations

8. Sunsets

9. Photosynthesis

10. Stand A Little Less Between Me And The Sun

11. Fibrillation

12. Long Day

13. Vast Landscape

14. Clear Light Of Reality

[BUNKUM]

Superb news for a Monday morning. The Environments records have been getting better with each release, I hope the trend continues.

[Guest ruiagnelo]

New FSOL is always good, but not amazing like the old days

[Guest Balance]

Woooo! Can't wait.

[Redruth]

vim

[purlieu]

01 - The Wheel Of Life (3:57)

02 - No Man's Land (1:15)

03 - River Delta (4:09)

04 - Supercontinents (2:01)

05 - Sediment (2:52)

06 - Architektur (5:12)

07 - Murmurations (6:27)

08 - Sunsets (3:30)

09 - Photosynthesis (2:34)

10 - Stand A Little Less Between Me And The Sun (1:42)

11 - Fibrillation (5:43)

12 - Long Day (2:41)

13 - Vast Landscape (5:21)

14 - Clear Light Of Reality (2:37)

 

Short.

It's currently down for release on 23rd April on Juno and 30th everywhere else (including FSOLDigital).

[purlieu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJrZ2iHmIgk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7ckWHWaQE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgDT7AqzLrw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15fqWs8Y0VE

 

Murmurations reminds me of the Amorphous stuff, bizarrely. The rest of it suggests this could be the most ambient thing they've done though.

[Redruth]

oh' these sound just as i'd hoped. thx u plees purlieu

[Guest Balance]

I don't think I like these :(

 

Maybe the full tracks will change my mind

[purlieu]

Clips of all the tracks at Juno

 

Sounds really good. And not even remotely like an archive recording. I can't hear any 90s sounds on this at all.

[Guest Balance]

Sounds Great ;)

 

All it too k was a few choir voices and a beat to change my mind.

[Redruth]

this is wonderful, i'm very pleased to have the fsol making their lovely little sounds again

[Rubin Farr]

digital bonus track emailing out to preorders today.

[Guest Balance]

I preorederd from Amazon, will i get it too?