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Release Date Friday 3rd May 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day
Vanishing Twin’s seminal LP, The Age Of Immunology, receives a LTD edition pressing on None ‘Pink’ and Sine ‘Teal’ vinyl, limited to 500 units each and paired with matching sleeve art. As essential take on psych-pop futurism and a must for fans of Broadcast, Sun Ra and Ennio Morricone.
Establishing the band as innovators in their field, the record was declared “a masterpiece” by The Line Of Best Fit, while The Quietus asserted Vanishing Twin as “one of the most original and exciting acts of the moment”.
This was the group’s first LP for Fire Records, at the time of recording the band’s evolving lineup consisted of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti, bassist Susumu Mukai, synth/guitar player Phil MFU and visual artist/film maker Elliott Arndt on flute and percussion.
The album was produced by Lucas in a number of non-standard, non-studio settings. ‘KRK (At Home In Strange Places)’ summons up the spirit of Sun Ra’s Lanquidity and Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio and was simply recorded on an iPhone during a live set which crackled with psychic connectivity on the Croatian island of Krk. The magical Morricone-esque lounge of ‘You Are Not an Island’, the blissed-out Jean-Claude Vannier style arrangement of ‘Invisible World’ and burbling sci fi funk ode to a 1972 cult French animation, ‘Planète Sauvage’, were all recorded in nighttime sessions in an abandoned mill in Sudbury.
★★★★★ The Line Of Best Fit
★★★★★ Pop Matters
★★★★ Pitchfork
★★★★ Loud and Quiet
★★★★ Uncut
★★★★ Q
★★★★ Record Collector
★★★★ Norman Records
★★★★ The 405
★★★★ Shindig
★★★★★ The Vinyl District
★★★★ Sydney Morning Herald
Track List:
- KRK (At Home In Strange Places)
- Wise Children
- Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
- You Are Not An Island
- The Age of Immunology
- Magician’s Success
- Planète Sauvage
- Backstroke
- Invisible World
- Language Is A City (Let Me Out!)
- The Age Of Immunology (Version)
- Magician’s Success (Live)
- Backstroke (Live)
- Language Is A City (Let Me Out!) (Live)
- You Are Not An Island (Version)
- Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Extended Life Version)
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