13/09/2019
Another excellent Klank product. 🤩🏆🥇
the new album by The Leaf Library is now available for you to pre-order from Bandcamp - it's a marvellous thing
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-is-a-bell
The record is an ambitious and expansive update of their warm, hypnotic drone-pop encompassing gently pulsing electronics, chiming guitars, minimalist piano, acoustic and synthesised drones, noise, improv and intricate brass and string arrangements, all in the service of the band’s most assured and experimental songwriting yet. Two years in the making it features guest contributions from (amongst others) celebrated singer Ed Dowie, noise group Far Rainbow, fellow space-pop travellers Firestations and the string quartet Iskra Strings. It draws on all aspects of the band’s work so far, from indie guitar pop to ambient atmospherics, via surging rhythms and layered, melancholic vocals.
This is the band’s second album (seventh if you count the various remix, side-project and short run CDR and tape releases they have put out over the last few years), and is the official follow up to 2015’s debut Daylight Versions (5* The Guardian). It was recorded at Studio Klank in Wood Green and drummer Lewis Young’s own Drone Lodge studio in Walthamstow using music made for 2017’s instrumental ‘On An Ocean Of Greatness’ (released for WIAIWYA’s 21st anniversary) as a jumping-off point, re-recording and re-wiring that epic track’s dense layers of synth and drone into something completely new.