
"Easy Lover" (featuring Big Sean) – 3:35ĭigital Download/Streaming – Four Tet Remix ĭigital Download/Streaming – Solo / No Rap Version ĭigital Download/Streaming – Jax Jones Remix.I wanted it to be a bit trippy, like we’re living in some kind of parallel universe, or we’re all in some kind of simulation, like a video game." She added that she wanted to allude to characters that might return later in the campaign. In an interview with Rolling Stone UK, Goulding stated: "I was really nervous that the video would just end up being a representation of the song. Sean makes a cameo during when Goulding plays a teacher who is taking class photos.

Goulding plays several characters, including a teacher and an androgynous rocker, to take on an otherworldly creature. The music video, directed by Sophia Ray, was shot in a school in Bulgaria. Fortunately, he said yes and it became the song you hear now." Ī solo version of the song was later released on 26 August 2022. I've been a fan for so long and he even sampled me on his Hall of Fame album so I decided to reach out and see if he'd be interested. When I started working on my new record I revisited it and weirdly, I'd just seen Big Sean's recent Coachella set and was just blown away by his presence. Regarding the inclusion of Big Sean on the record, she added: "We tried different versions over the years and none of them felt quite right. I wrote it with Greg Kurstin (who I've worked with many times before) and Julia Michaels and I always knew there was something special about this song but it never really had a 'home'". I was coming to the end of the Delirium cycle and started on some ideas for the next record. Detailing the process behind the song, she said: "Truthfully, this song started life about 5 or 6 years ago. Drawing from unreleased music and song sketches by the original artists as well as field recordings from travels & studio sessions made by Roberto Musci & Manos Tsangaris in the 80's and early 90's he constructs a side winding journey through playful textures and ethereal moods.In July 2022, Goulding sent an email to her fans saying "that the song was a long time coming and that it had had many lives". The closing exemplifies the edit/remix/original ethos proposed for this work with Lions Drums drawing from tapes and original material of electronic pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Roberto Musci. Inky ether seeps back in through the second half of the album with a peak of frenzied tumbling toms and incongruous textures hovering above in the Manos Tsangaris' collaboration "Crying Tafel" and his re-imagining of Tullio De Piscopo's unhinged drum excursion "Fastness". Breaking away from the musing themes of the opening songs we find an ecstatic ritual in "Tanz der Korperlinge" and "Journey to Middle Earth", two distinct varieties but both of the same perennial species. In orderly cue folding and unfolding, meditatively through, melodies as muddied pastelle whispers cast over the measured language of the drum.

The album sets the tone by putting these two concepts fully on display with its hypnotic chant, swaying one into ease over the first two songs. First by challenging the notion of the album format by presenting a body of work that lies snuggly between remixes, edits and original works and secondly as a means to delve into the transcendent potential of the drum.
ELLIE GOULDING LIGHTS METROGNOME REMIX FULL
Review: Lion's Drums full length exists as en exploration in multiple dimensions. Once again Fragments of Reality delivers four unique excursions into different dimensions and soundscapes. Following a string of high calibre releases on Phonica AM and their own label the duo continue to make their mark as masters of cinematic sound design with this tripped out mind melter! FOR 02 is beautifully balanced with 'Enchanted' from Berlin based duo ERIS, known amongst other things for their releases on Tokyo based label, Cabaret. The flip side opens with 'Pyramid' a fresh new sound from a mysterious duo, Voodoos and Taboos.

It's closely followed by 'Animal Anthem' from acid breaks maestro Rudolf C, that features his trademark multi-dimensional layers of sound wrapped up in a contemplative mood and finished with intense production skills. Review: Fragments of Reality continues to suck you through wormholes into the multiverse with the second selection of exclusive V/A tracks produced for the fledgling imprint.įOR 02 opens with a brand new collaboration between Subb-an (ONE records) and Luther Vine (Phonica) with a track called 'Expression' - an ominous, swirling, floor-filling monster that combines relentless rhythms, otherworldly vocals and futuristic synths into a high-quality production.
