Name: Songs About Drowning
Brand: Thought Forms

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

inv167lp

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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

2016-11-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5051083111041

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

inv167cd

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5051083111034

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Thought Forms

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Invada

Invada Records was formed in 2002 by Geoff Barrow, Ashley Anderson, and Redg Weeks. Geoff and Ashley have been collaborating since 1998 and decided to establish the label together. In 2003, Geoff started Invada Records UK, focusing on developing a roster of artists from the UK that would also be released in Australia. As the label continues to grow, Invada is expanding its distribution network worldwide.

On third full length release Songs About Drowning, Thought Forms kick it up yet another notch, pushing the boat out even further to create a strange, intoxicating album, their most accomplished to date and certainly their most fascinating. The resultant album is Thought Forms at their most refined, although that doesn’t mean that it lacks a pulse by any stretch of the imagination. Instead it’s the opposite - by combining songwriting methods they’d used in the past, they honed and sharpened their sound to a knife edge. The colossal, completely improvised opus Aeaea slowly builds into a maelstrom of beautifully attuned noise with piano, drums and even horns adding to its perfect storm. Similarly, Forget My Name and By the Stars build on improvised drum patterns to become beautifully hypnotic, seductive tour de forces which rank among the band’s best yet. With the band adding new instruments and a new level of confidence into the mix, Songs About Drowning could well be the record that sees Thought Forms getting the recognition they so richly deserve as unparalleled British sonic noiseniks bar none, and see them carrying on the proud lineage of off-kilter noise pop, joining the ranks of My Bloody Valentine, Suicide and many more.

LP - Pressed on purple coloured vinyl and housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, the LP format comes complete with digital download card. 

Songs About Drowning

Music GB