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the gravitational field of oblivion

by white.light.monorail

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oblivion 05:51
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1984 05:17
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babul 04:52
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airwaves 05:29
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frozen fire 05:12
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about

Five years after the release of their debut album ‘welcome to our domed future’, Tyler Newman and Paul Savio return as white.light.monorail, to deliver another album of hard hitting electronics. While the first album was driven by instrumental retro-futurist jams, the new album bears some similarities to the pairs earlier band, Battery Cage, with a considerably darker sound overall.

“We had been talking about the idea of making a record that was a bit of an homage to our early years making industrial dance music, using rules like ‘everything has to be based on hardware synths and samplers’ and relying less on software plug-ins. Something about working in that style really helped drive the songwriting, it gave everything a bit of a rougher and more aggressive sound, and led us towards some unexpected outcomes. Unlike our first record which was more of an aesthetic concept, this time we let the rules shape the music and I think we ended up somewhere that challenges the listener a bit more.” - tyler newman

“We literally crammed my studio with at least 11 synths, 4 loopers, 3 drum machines, 3 vocoders, a couple of guitars, all kinds of pedals, and some really good mics. It’s so important to bring each instrument’s character to life in the best way possible. I think you can hear each one’s contribution on every track.” - paul savio

While the albums two singles, ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Silence : Transformed’, clearly show the bands lineage from the early 2000’s, the remainder of the songs take things in a more experimental direction. Other songs like ‘Babul’ and ‘Airwaves’ redefine the concept of ‘guest vocalists’ while showcasing the bands sample manipulation skills (and blatant disregard for sample copyright). Meanwhile, songs like ‘1984’ and ‘An Infinite Timeline Of Pain And Suffering’ steer the listener through the bands reinterpretation from one end to the other of the past forty years of “industrial music”, confronting your preconceptions of minimalist and maximalist production styles.

Despite the five year gap between releases, ‘The Gravitational Field Of Oblivion’ shows white.light.monorail continuing to mine their own unique take on electronic music, even creating their own DIY video for the lead single ‘Oblivion’. Their insistence on maintaining their own vision includes multiple in-house remixes and non-album b-sides for both the ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Silence : Transformed’ single releases. These releases will be the first material to appear from solid.grey.sky.recordings since 2017’s “aerial structures”, and will launch a new series of album releases throughout 2020.

credits

released December 10, 2019

white.light.monorail is tyler newman and paul savio
all songs by white.light.monorail
recorded at solid.grey.sky.studios [oakland]
video shot on location at faultline studios [san francisco]
cover art and design by vlad mcneally [kallistidesign.net]
band photography by john adams [retina.net]
audio mastering by thomas dimuzio [gench.com]

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