Name: New Pleasures
Brand: Arp

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MEX2861

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

184923128611

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Mexican Summer

Arp is an artist known for his unique blend of electronic and experimental music. With a discography spanning over two decades, Arp has established himself as a pioneer in the genre. Influenced by artists such as Josiah Steinbrick, Visible Cloaks, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Arp's sound is characterized by intricate melodies and ethereal atmospheres.

Arp's music takes listeners on a journey through sonic landscapes that are both captivating and thought-provoking. His compositions often feature complex rhythms and layers of synthesizers, creating a rich tapestry of sound. Drawing inspiration from various genres including ambient, krautrock, and new age, Arp's music defies categorization.

With each release, Arp continues to push the boundaries of electronic music. Collaborating with other talented musicians such as Gaussian Curve and Joseph Shabason, he constantly explores new sonic territories. Whether performing live or producing in the studio, Arp's passion for experimentation shines through in every note.

Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.

Arp, a.k.a. Alexis Georgopoulos, makes his anticipated return to Mexican Summer with the second chapter in his Zebra trilogy. New Pleasures advances the narrative begun with 2018’s acclaimed Zebra; pastoral in mood, expansive in style, the record acted as a dawn on a nascent, Edenic landscape, reminiscent of a beautiful, long-lost Fourth World album. In this world, the music approximated the patient cadence of geological time – the way time suspends when you watch a river in motion. There was, nonetheless, the presence of something alien on the horizon.

Now, Arp drops us deep into the grid of the city. (Or is it a complex lattice of microchips?) New Pleasures fast-forwards a few centuries, locating listeners in a post-industrial Sprawl (to borrow an expression from William Gibson’s Neuromancer) of concrete and glass, imbuing the album with the flinty glow of commerce, the sleek rhythms of industrialization, and the cool finesse of brutalism. The result is a collection of futuristic pop interiors with glinted exteriors; a prismatic inquiry into machine sentience, the economy of desire, and myriad forms of possession – a dystopian response to Zebra’s idyllic naturalism. Canny and time-bending, Georgopoulos sculpts angularities into fresh, alluring shapes, expanding and contracting song form into brain-teasing sound design. The sensation the music offers is almost rubbery; it makes you feel as if you could flex, bend and squeeze your body inside out – a vivid, deconstructed take on high-definition pop, avant-garde, and dance music forms.

New Pleasures

Music GB