Minor Victories (Mogwai Slowdive) Orchestral Variations LTD ED CLEAR 2LP NEW

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Minor Victories
Orchestral Variations

Limited Edition Clear Vinyl


Fat Possum Records FP1591-1 2016 LP  (USA)

This summer, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Editors’ Justin Lockey and his brother James came together to release their debut album as Minor Victories. Currently in the midst of a run of live shows throughout Europe, the band are pleased to announce their utterly stunning instrumental interpretation of the self-titled record, entitled Orchestral Variations.

Justin Lockey on the making of Orchestral Variations:

I don't really know that much about music in terms of theory, notes, scales etc. I generally just fuck about with things until it sounds right to my ear... So I guess to call this album 'Orchestral Variations,' it would have to be in the loosest ever sense of the term.

When we were putting together the Minor Victories album, a lot of the music came about through string arrangements, motifs, melodies, countermelodies and other such noodlings I was messing about with. This record kind of takes it back to that initial point, and re-imagines the whole record from that standpoint - the bare bones, the hint at a vocal melody, not relying on any backbeat - but stripping the songs back to the base elements and then piece-by-piece making an entirely new record. It takes the songs and elements around them and the phrases into a new place, mostly born out of hindsight and I guess a curiosity to fuck around with it all long enough until it sounded right to my ear. From all that an entirely new record was formed. It's not a remix album, or b-sides... it's just another way at looking/hearing things.

Produced and engineered by Justin, and featuring the likes of Mark Kozelek and James Graham from The Twilight Sad, Minor Victories (in its original form) was released in June via Play It Again Sam. What began as Justin’s desire to create an extreme noise EP topped off by delicate female vocals, Minor Victories became a 10-track LP, masterfully crafted by four band members who had somehow never even all been in the same room together until after the album was completed. Far more than a side project for its members, this record unveils the real essence of what a group of talented individuals unshackled by convention can attain. Brought together by brief meetings, mutual acquaintances and overall serendipity, Minor Victories created this album together by swapping ideas, songs, fragments and finished recordings via broadband connections. This unusual process, combined with the members’ wide spectrum of musical tastes and experiences converging, ultimately led to something beyond the original vision of any of the contributors that pushes new boundaries and new sounds into uncharted waters.

Tracklist
A1 Cogs (Orchestral Variation) 5:48
A2 Breaking My Light (Orchestral Variation) 5:42
A3 The Thief (Orchestral Variation) 5:31
B1 Give Up the Ghost (Orchestral Variation) 7:11
B2 Scattered Ashes (Orchestral Variation) 5:41
C1 Folk Arp (Orchestral Variation) 6:24
C2 For You Always (Orchestral Variation) 3:52
C3 A Hundred Ropes (Orchestral Variation) 5:37
D1 Higher Hopes (Orchestral Variation) 7:52
D2 Out To Sea (Orchestral Variation) 5:38

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Minor Victories
Copyright (c) – Minor Victories

Artwork, Design – Rob Hadfield
Mastered By – Paul Gregory
Orchestrated By, Producer – Justin Lockey

Edition of 500 on clear vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2016.

Clear Vinyl in a gatefold picture sleeve is NEW SEALED

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