Name: Built Environment
Brand: Seriously

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Default:19

Supplier EU

Redeye

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Limited edition

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Format Music EU

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Extended format: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Signed copies: No

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Download code: No

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Bonus disc: No

Release date

2023-06-16

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Catalogue number

LPEL227

UPC / Barcode

810096652126

Artist

Seriously

Label EU

Earth Libraries

Genre EU

Rock-Pop

Started by a prestigious group of librarians and archivists from around the globe, Earth Libraries was originally formed to ensure protection of the world's knowledge and social history during times of war.

While the group kept their identities unknown, its members are widely associated with the forming of ethnomusicology—the study of music from the cultural and social perspectives of the people who make it. With participation in over 20 countries, the number of chapters peaked in the 1960s. Unfortunately, this once bright light quickly faded due to global political change and funding cuts in the decades that followed. As the 20th century came to an end, Earth Libraries existed in relative obscurity, including a brief period as a mail order catalog during which time the organization sold many of its assets to fund operations.

Nearly 50 years after its creation, Earth Libraries has resurfaced as a new global group of musicologists exploring underground and experimental music. Now functioning as a music label, it focuses on strong artist relationships and technology.

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For decades, the concept of the American Dream has felt like an immutable entity that burst into existence fully formed - But even those concepts that get hammered into society until they become inescapable cliches were constructed from a distinct sociopolitical perspective--a breakdown in the system that post-punk outfit Seriously pick at on their latest, Built Environment, due TK via Earth Libraries. "There are inherent inequities woven into the American Dream, in the ways it was designed, how it was sold to us," insists bassist/vocalist Chayse Porter. "We want to pull back the curtain on the complacency, vanity, and follies of rugged individualism that sprawl through the suburbs." The band's careful push and pull between the voices and the synths and drum machine add a layer of steady momentum. More than a musical choice, that iconoclastic duality is drawn directly from the trio's lived experiences. All three members of Seriously were born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, though Porter now splits time in San Francisco, and the album draws its themes from the increasingly entangled dualities of that journey: past and present, North and South, and relentless capitalism and the hope of the DIY scene, where all three have spent years managing venues and art spaces, booking shows, and playing in bands. "Built Environment observes the insularity that technology introduces, the frailty of modern landscapes, and the manufactured dependencies we all crave--what we now know as the American Dream," Porter explains. Seriously deliver that subtle pang in a starry night tableau, flashes of whistling, glistening harmonies, and shimmering guitar. In that way, Built Environment draws the listener in closer and closer only to reveal that the one twisting the knife has been yourself all along.

Built Environment

Music EU