Asgeir – Time On My Hands (LP) – Glow In The Dark Vinyl

Album Info Hide Show Artist: sgeir Album: Time On My Hands Released: Europe, 28 Oct 2022 Tracklist: A1 Time On My Hands A2 Borderland A3 Snowblind A4 Vibrating Walls A5 Blue B1 Giantess B2 Like I Am B3 Waiting Room B4 Golden Hour B5 Limitless Related Content: Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Glow In The Dark Vinyl. As one of Icelands most successful exports, singer-songwriter sgeir has spent the time between his record-breaking debut (now celebrating its 10 th anniversary) and today pushing the boundaries of his textured, thoughtful brand of folk-pop. On October 28th hell release his long anticipated fourth album Time On My Hands via One Little Independent Records. Time On My Hands sees sgeir in a state of self-reflection and experimentation, having spent much of the last few years in his home and in the studio deeply engrossed in writing, recording, translating and producing. On this album hes entered new realms of composition, sensitively layering acoustics with electronics and brass. As with some of his previous work, most notably 2017s Afterglow and 2020s Bury The Moon, sgeir plays with euphoric and choral elements of electronic pop music while keeping a tight grasp on the introspective, vocal-lead style of the acoustica that made him famous. Across the LP shuffling jazz drums crack through the layered production beneath them, distant saxophone adds emotional emphasis and, amidst it all, sgeirs singular, pure voice weaves narratives that recall the sparse and dark roads of his Icelandic hometown. It opens with the assured relaxation of its title track and Borderland where subtle instrumental flourishes colour vibrant lyricism and elevated vocals. Its clear from the beginning that the collection is built around visuals of glacial scenery as sgeir soars above an icy terrain of enchanting melodic soundscapes with cinematic lucidity. A strong breeze carries us into full flight with Snowblind, a track that boasts an unforgettable climatic arrangement and heftier beats. Vibrating Walls is melancholy in its delivery, while Blue is light and crisp. The towering strides of Giantess build steadily, exploring a haunting and powerful mythological allegory. Its on tracks like this, and the retrospective Like I Am, that one can fully appreciate the beauty of sgeirs lyrics, worked into English from their original Icelandic with his brother Steini and Petur Ben. As has become traditional for them, much of the album is also inspired by the writing of sgeirs father, celebrated poet Einar Georg Einarsson. Gorgeous ballad Waiting Room and the hypnotic, propulsive Golden Hour work together like hazy memories of carefree, simpler times; walking by lakes, forests and countrysides, reflecting on the past, and things that mightve been different. Album closer Limitless philosophizes on our individualist need to consume and the insignificance of our daily struggles in comparison to the scope of the wider universe. It asks the listener to allow themselves to see things from a different perspective, while spacey ambience is littered with satellite-like synth embellishments. The extended time that sgeir had to work on the material gave him space to venture into different synth sounds, he tells us; Theres a synth repair guy that works at the studio and theres a lot of vintage synthesizers that come through there. We bought an old Memorymoog off him while recording the album and I used it on many of the songs. I wrote Vibrating Walls on a Korg PS-3100. Korg Delta has always been one of my favourite synths and it was used on a few tracks. I use my voice as the bass sound in Golden Hour, I got the idea after listening to Rank and File by Moses Sumney. The rolling landscapes aesthetic of the record was inspired by sgeirs own relationship with music over the last two years, consuming mostly while he was running outdoors, or while on long drives. He says that some of the albums or music that stand out from that time were Caribous album Suddenly, Caroline Polichek-Pang, Dijon, Altopalo, Big Thief, Michael Kiwanuka, Sault, Ethan Gruska, Blake Mills and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. This music probably has something to do with how the record came out, combined with earlier influences. Time On My Hands was recorded in Studio Hljrit where sgeir has always recorded, working closely with producer Gumundur Kristinn Jnsson, he also recorded some of it at home. sgeir plays the bulk of the instruments himself but also invited the likes of drummers Nils Trnqvist and Kristinn Snr Agnarson, and the brass trio Samel Jn Samelsson, Kjartan Hkonarson and skar Gujnsson as well as Petur Ben to add the occasional percussion or guitar. As ruminated on in Borderland, the whole album asks us to allow ourselves to glide over borders, both the physical, the ones we put up ourselves, and those between reality and imagination. Its about freedom, the desire for adventure, and taking flight to escape isolation, as well as appreciating the natural wonders that surround us every day. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review