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Following the much-loved Library Music: Volume One (2022), and hot on the heels of this year's critically acclaimed 'After The Rain, Strange Seeds' (9/10 - Uncut), London group The Leaf Library return with a second journey through the margins of their catalogue. Gathering together rare recordings, compilation tracks, limited edition releases, collaborations and hidden gems from their ever-expanding musical world, Library Music: Volume Two is another vibrant and varied collection of electronic indie pop, in all it's guises.Far from a conventional odds and ends collection, the double LP compilation reveals another side of a band who have always treated the spaces between albums as places to explore. These are the moments where ideas stretch out; there are hypnotic drones, motorik rhythms, glowing analogue textures, pastoral electronics and the warm, melodic melancholy that has become unmistakably The Leaf Library. There is the electro-pop of Flowers At The Border, the psych rock-adjacent Building Better Worlds, and the gentle chamber shuffle of Kendrick Road. Tracks range from the 22 minute folk kosmiche epic Versatile Clouds to the 59 seconds, record skip punctuation mark of Harmonic Runout, with a whole array of trips, ideas and experiments in between. Since forming in a pre-Ghost Box, Castles in Space and Clay Pipe world, The Leaf Library have carved out a unique place somewhere between dream pop, kosmische repetition and experimental songcraft - drawing comparisons to Stereolab, Broadcast, Yo La Tengo and the outer edges of library music, while creating a sound entirely their own.Where their studio albums have shown the group carefully building immersive worlds, the Library Music series maps the pathways between them - the sketches, diversions and unexpected discoveries that often reveal the most about a band.
Tracklist:
- Flowers at the Border
- The Long Dead King
- Bowed Clusters
- I Learned to Swim Under Water
- Building Better Worlds
- Harmonic Runout
- Kendrick Road
- Sailing Day (Wintergreen Remix)
- Versatile Clouds
- Bells and Thread
- No Memories, No Plans
- Everyone I Met Today
- Tired Ghost in Orbit
UPC: 5063720382226
Label: Where It's At Is
Release Date: 11.27.26
Format: Vinyl Record
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