Name: Cosmic Joke
Brand: Al Lover

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-FUZZ-174XIEC

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Colour

Green

Colour details

Green Transparent Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060467889193

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Total Cap

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

CD-FUZZ-174IE

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Extended format: No

2022-08-05

5060467889223

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

LP-FUZZ-174IE

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Black

2022-09-30

5060467889186

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

Artist

Al Lover

Genre US

New Psyche & Psyche Rock

Label US

Fuzz Club Records

A staple of the global psychedelic scene, Al Lover has spent nearly a decade fine-tuning a broken, abstracted form of electronica that pools together a tapestry of trip-hop, synthesised krautrock, dub and dark ambient. 

Central to Lover's music is a desire to explore the fringes of psychedelic music and the common threads that run through its far-reaching styles, drawing elements from the past and connecting them to the future, 'Cosmic Joke' - a series of synthesised philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity. 

"'Cosmic Joke' came from observing the rising, compounded absurdity in recent years and seeing structures of normalcy dissolving. It's my attempt to view these things as part of a higher order process, through a metaphysical lens rather than an ideological one. It's been an exercise in holding the paradoxical relationship of comedy and tragedy, joy and pain, growth and decay, scale and decline as part of an interlocked system that, at a deep level, is essential to how we interface with the world."

Cosmic Joke

Music US