Sharp Love Slow Faint, by Laurie Tompkins

Sharp Love Slow Faint

by Laurie Tompkins

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1.	Pink U 04:20	buy track
2.	Conk 03:26	buy track
3.	Slugs 03:20	buy track
4.	Sky Sigh 03:01	buy track
5.	Talc 00:41	buy track
6.	Happy 02:58	buy track
7.	Grace 01:32	buy track
8.	Fashion 03:54	buy track
9.	Loom 02:24	buy track
10.	Past is Past 01:18	buy track
11.	Witch 01:13	buy track
12.	Car Arses 01:38	buy track
13.	Pump Fake 04:00	buy track

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Sharp Love Slow Faint is Laurie Tompkins new release for Hyperdelia and shows the Sheffield-based composer as a hyperreal crooning entertainer. Backed up by Ashley Paul's smoothly sailing saxophone and Eliza McCarthy's hazy keys, the trio conjures a faux electric lounge jazz band rehearsing for a matinee.

Tompkins’ compositions, initially conceived as little self-contained postcard scores, functioned as short instructions for semi-improvised interpretations. Paul and McCarthy recorded guitar, sax and keys in July 2021 in an empty Café Oto. Tompkins then processed the recordings afterwards and cut his vocals on top. Throughout the record, his singing is mystically effected, sung through delays, echo, noise and takes on the persona of a private lover of karaoke. In these moments, the music is reminiscent of the late Scott Walker, someone who has also always impersonated more than one voice.

Similarly, the lyrics are polyphonous, they have no addressee but are sporadic and sub-conscious expressive ramblings; such as the wonderfully odd 'Fashion', a warped lullaby sung by a hoarse Stuart A. Staples, or the ode to automobile eroticism on 'Car Arses'.

Much of Sharp Love Slow Faint is carried by a ghostly funkiness thanks to the melodic brevity of the tracks and the loopy character of the compositions. Sharp Love Slow Faint is a theatrical mood music – "emotional but out of place" – that lets listeners marvel at its strangeness. Tompkins’ intimate lyricism shimmers throughout.

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released June 9, 2022

Laurie Tompkins - Music, Text, Voice, Samples

Ashley Paul - E-Guitar, Saxophone, Voice
Eliza McCarthey - E-Keys, Piano

Artwork by Mio Ebisu
Commissioned by Daylight Editions
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Recorded by Shaun Crook in April 2021 in an empty Café Oto

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Laurie Tompkins Sheffield, UK

Laurie Tompkins is a UK composer, performer and co-founder and co-director of the Slip label.

From scores for samples, instruments and voices he creates a grabbable music that dreams and confounds. Bodies, things, words, and sounds strain under duress, looping their way through scenes of grubby presence, not-quite riff, mouldy echo, and swollen bombast. ... more

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