Years Went By, by Eliza McCarthy & Laurie Tompkins

Years Went By

by Eliza McCarthy & Laurie Tompkins

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1.	Only humans carry their pasta round 03:00	buy track
2.	Blind man dead plants 02:40	buy track
3.	Life is horrible 04:22	buy track
4.	This is what I thought yesterday 07:25	buy track
5.	These dreams make my heart hurt 03:56	buy track
6.	Courage to Quit 06:12	buy track
7.	Pour soup for our days 07:28	buy track

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It started as something smooth for piano, let the notes work, less shouting. I sacked off that vow, took it up again, did desperate things to keep it all alive, and here’s the proof.

Years Went By is a thick, unruly soup of keys and computer. The ornate line I wrote for Eliza is often traced and echoed by — or tangled up with — a second electronic voice that speaks in synthetic instruments and deformed recordings. Eliza’s piano and keys need the oddest of FX to pace through the bog, and we both sing like torches when needed.

Listening now, I think it’s a dreamy album, it levitates through a thousand grubby jumps. Like a memoir, I hope it feels like distance travelled, the way we stew and scrub a life.

This is Eliza and I’s first music together. We met when I released her 2018 collaboration with Mica Levi on Slip.

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released April 18, 2022

Eliza McCarthy: piano, keys, voice
Laurie Tompkins: music, production, voice

Mastered by Yves De Mey (1–6) and Giuseppe Ielasi (7)

Begun on residency at the red studio, Aldeburgh, in January 2019. Piano recorded by Shaun Crook at an empty Cafe Oto in April 2020.

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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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