{"product_id":"ian-william-craig-thresholder-vinyl","title":"Ian William Craig - Thresholder","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteen months on from his last new release, Vancouver-based singer \/ composer Ian William Craig returns to FatCat with an (album-length) EPof eleven brand new tracks. Entitled Thresholder, the record sees Craig return towards the smudged and scoured beauty of his 2016 opus, Centres, a record which was universally acclaimed, making many end-of-year lists - including the likes of Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Wire, The Quie-tus, The 405 and Drowned In Sound. For Craig the focus of the album was a great boundlessness of space, the sound of the big bang, the spookiness of the quantum world, and vacillations of different kinds ofcon-flicting time. Besides as the often-quoted William Basinski reference point, the music here recalls the visceral media-decay of early '00s operators like Fennesz, Belong, Desormais, Philip Jeck or Pimmon. \"\"Idea for Contradiction 2\"\"Is like a massively over-driven or sandpaper-scoured version of Brian Eno's \"\"An Ending\"\"or some shredded Colin Stetson stem. The ending of\"\"And Therefore the Moonlight\"\" - is reminiscent of Sigur Rós (who are fans and recently invited Ian to play their NorðurogNiður festival in Reykjavik); while \"\"Sfumato\"\" exists in the same dimension as The Caretaker's haunted ballroom with it's reverb-drenched and occluded distant vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618098479399,"sku":"600116133212","price":23.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.corkyscoffee.com\/products\/ian-william-craig-thresholder-vinyl","provider":"Corkys Coffee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}