Name: Hold On, Hold Fast
Brand: Blue Lick

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-ADR-38

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

727431747525

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Total Cap

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

Artist

Blue Lick

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

American Dreams Records

"<i>Hold On, Hold Fast</i> is a multivariable meditation on existence and a queasy sonic exploration. The album combines Havadine Stone’s vocals and writing with Ben Baker Billington’s roving modular synth soundscapes that oscillate between the caustic and atmospheric, resulting in something plainspoken, disorienting and singularly Midwestern.

Composition for <i>Hold On, Hold Fast</i> began in 2020 with Stone starting the creative process, sending her vocal contribution to Billington. “I thought she might send field recordings,” he says, “but she ended up writing a long piece and reciting it.” Once Stone turned in her vocals, Billington turned to his custom modular synth, made by Matthew Regula, to create backdrops, slicing the monologue into twelve pieces. This is the Midwest without Culvers, where crop rows line the earth, where uniformity averts attention, where a few stalks back something waits, inspecting the passers by, and jotting down notes, as it has, and as it will continue to."

Hold On, Hold Fast

Music US