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Arms and Sleepers – Corpus Dei
Arms and Sleepers continue their journey through a turbulent 2020 with the 5th installment in their 6-part music series being released this year. The new full-length album, titled CORPUS DEI, will be out on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings.
Arms and Sleepers is the electronic music duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic. Formed in Boston, USA in 2006, the group has amassed over 30 releases, nearly 2,000 live performances, and countless TV and Film music placements in their 15-year history. 2020 has been the group’s busiest year yet, and the upcoming new album CORPUS DEI looks to add another signature stamp in Arms and Sleepers’ diverse music catalog.
Written and produced throughout 2020 – while on US and European tours, unplanned quarantine in Latvia, and settling into a new home in Berlin – CORPUS DEI is a surreal musical journey that feels both free-spirited and highly tense. It is the culmination of a fragile, uncertain and difficult year, and a closing statement on an ambitious, multi-release conceptual project. CORPUS DEI is Arms and Sleepers’ fourth full-length album released in 2020 alone, which also saw the release of several EPs, standalone singles, and remixes. Each release has revolved around the idea of “self-destruction”, an eerily relevant topic that was conceived well before the pandemic-stricken year. Writes Ramic: “I started planning for this 6-part music release in 2019 as a way of dealing with and processing my own increasing existential obsession with mortality, meaning, and ultimate absurdity of life. I wanted each release to capture some broader, objective elements of human life as well as some more personal, subjective experiences. Little did I know that I would end up living in isolation in Latvia for nearly 4 months earlier this year. It was an incredibly bizarre period of my life, as it was—and continues to be—for much of the world.”
CORPUS DEI combines the varied sounds of Arms and Sleepers’ recent releases, merging elements of instrumental hip-hop, IDM, electronica, downtempo, and ambient music. The intricately textured beats and densely layered synths form a sonic palette that should be familiar to fans of Arms and Sleepers, but the static-induced, noisy and unsettling atmosphere of the album as a whole adds a new dimension to the group’s catalog. Experimenting more closely with sound design and focusing on the overall compositional flow, Arms and Sleepers manages to create a record that seems to—for better or for worse—capture the dreadful emotional weight of 2020. Writes Ramic: “The various song ideas for CORPUS DEI were written throughout 2020 in what seem like impossibly different contexts: a few days off on tour in Augusta, Georgia in warm southern weather in mid-February; a tiny hotel room in Odessa, Ukraine on the first day of a European tour; a strange 4 months in Riga, Latvia while stranded there in the midst of a pandemic; and a rejuvenating new chapter of my life in Berlin, Germany despite the continued uncertainty about the pandemic. This album feels like a collection of estranged fragments of my life this year – a year that has felt like an eternity.”
CORPUS DEI releases on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings and will be accompanied by various special cinematic visualizers.
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Written and produced by Arms and Sleepers
Co-produced, mixed, and mastered by Sun Glitters
Vocals on track 7 by Sofia Insua
Artwork by Victor Ferreira
Arms and Sleepers – Corpus Dei
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Release date: December 4, 2020
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TRACKLIST
01 Return To Form
02 Center Of The Sun
03 You Wanted To Dream But I Wanted To Kill
04 Is This Stuff True
05 2083
06 Speak Words, Tell Me Nothing
07 Maybe It Was Yesterday (feat. Sofia Insua)
08 Of No Intrinsic Value
09 Not Be Built
10 Zone: Basic
11 Lonely Or Whatever
12 Seminal
13 9 + 29A + 81 + 91
14 Dawn Of Man
15 A Hunger Artist
16 Destined For Greatness
PALLADIAN – Carpets
PALLADIAN – Carpets
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Release date: October 16, 2020
Brand new Italian electronic duo PALLADIAN emerges with their debut original track ‘Carpets’. Based in Barcelona, Spain, the duo draws from downtempo and contemporary electronic influences, and traditional electronic production techniques, offering an exciting and fresh cross-genre aesthetic. With both members having a background in architecture, PALLADIAN tends to create their songs as if they were buildings. From this approach you can expect a solid rhythmic structure decorated with lots of colorful details; this analogy is the real foundation of the project.
PALLADIAN’s debut ‘Carpets’ also includes an alternate edit from lo-fi chillwave veteran producer Sun Glitters, who offers a different flavor of the same composition. The two-track single releases everywhere on October 16, 2020 via Future Archive Recordings, the artist-run indie electronic label also co-founded by Sun Glitters.
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ERA C – destroy me
ERA C – destroy me
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Release date: October 2, 2020
ERA C is the new project from Sofia Insua of the Guatemalan indie group Easy Easy and Mirza Ramic of the American electronic duo Arms and Sleepers.
Writes Insua about the latest single destroy me:
“I spent 18 years of my life in Guatemala and four in NYC. This song was written while walking in the streets of Prague for the first time and recorded in Brno, Czech Republic. Out of all the places I’ve been, my least favorite will always be an empty room. And every time I listen to this song, I imagine a stripped down version of the studio where it was recorded – a room full of sound and emotion, now fully vacant in my mind’s eye. destroy me is about complacency, surrender, and what once was.”
Hear the previous single + remix by Yppah:
idcbackwards.bandcamp.com/album/f-cil-yppah-edit
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Arms and Sleepers – Black Out / Sun Shine (PALLADIAN Edit)
Arms and Sleepers – Black Out / Sun Shine (PALLADIAN Edit)
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Release date: September 17, 2020
Up-and-coming electronic duo PALLADIAN (Barcelona, Spain) emerges with a compelling remix of the Arms and Sleepers track ‘Black Out / Sun Shine’. Originally from the full-length album ‘Safe Area Earth’, released in January 2020 on Future Archive Recordings, PALLADIAN re-envisions the lo-fi beats track with a contemporary downtempo aesthetic akin to Bonobo, il:lo, and Tycho. No stranger to downtempo, lo-fi, and cinematic electronic fans, Arms and Sleepers has been featured by the likes of Earmilk, XLR8R, NPR, and Huffington Post, and their music has been licensed by Vice, Amazon, National Geographic, and United Airlines, among others. Arms and Sleepers will release the PALLADIAN remix via Future Archive Recordings on September 17, 2020.
ERA C – FÁCIL (Yppah Edit)
ERA C – FÁCIL (Yppah Edit)
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Release date: September 10, 2020
ERA C T NOD 1, the new project from Sofia Insua of the Guatemalan group Easy Easy and Mirza Ramic of the American music duo Arms and Sleepers, recently released their latest single ‘FÁCIL’. The group now returns with an alternate edit mixed and produced by the downtempo shoegaze favorite Yppah, giving the original track a new flavor and a new sonic palette. ‘FÁCIL (Yppah Edit)’ will be available via Future Archive Recordings on September 10, 2020.
Sun Glitters – BBaacckk && FFoorrtthh (Slow Magic Edit)
Sun Glitters – BBaacckk && FFoorrtthh (Slow Magic Edit)
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Release date: September 03, 2020
Following the release of his latest full-length album ‘SSoofftt TToouucchh’ and a b-sides EP, Sun Glitters is back with a fresh take on one of his album tracks from Slow Magic. The two music producers have collaborated several times before, most notably on a 7″ split release in 2014. This time, Slow Magic reinterprets the song ‘BBaacckk && FFoorrtthh’ (lead single from Sun Glitters‘ latest album), breathing new energy into the track with his signature synth-laced and crisp beat production. A perfect song to ease you out of the summer months in an otherwise surreal year, ‘BBaacckk && FFoorrtthh (Slow Magic Edit)’ will have you instantly hooked and hitting that repeat button. Enjoy!
CNJR – I Can See the Church Burning Through the Binoculars
CNJR – I Can See the Church Burning Through the Binoculars
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Release date: October 09 2020
Experimental music producer CNJR returns with a new full-length release. ‘I Can See the Church Burning Through the Binoculars’ sees CNJR depart from a deeper synth-driven electronic feel to embrace an indie aesthetic throughout the album. A stronger presence of guitars, acoustic drums, and vocals can be heard interwoven with retro synthesizers and electronic elements recognized from prior releases. A starkly dark album, ‘I Can See the Church Burning Through the Binoculars’ explores themes of repression, emotional turmoil, and identity.
“This album came together during a time in my life when I was processing internally about my childhood, the relationships in my life, my experience as a queer person, gender fluid person, and really being honest about the dynamics present around me. A lot of fear, pain, repression, alienation, and self-censoring came up for me, and you can hear it in the music. The result is a pretty dark exploration, I hope it can feel cathartic for listeners in a similar way it was for me to work on the compositions.” – CNJR
Arms and Sleepers – Leon EP
Arms and Sleepers – Leon EP
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Release date: August 21, 2020
‘Leon’ is taken from the Arms and Sleepers full-length album ‘Safe Area Earth’, released in January 2020 on Future Archive Recordings. The ‘Leon EP’ features the original version as well as the instrumental version and two remixes.
‘Safe Area Earth’ is available HERE.