why we love this
Murmurs flow into the uncanny valley of this record, where the lines between human and cyborg blur. Dialogue loses coherence as the blips and whirrs of a machine speak volumes. A certain wry defiance grounds itself in the knowledge that meaning survives and persists, even when it's lost in translation.
about the record
"I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder," shares Havadine Stone of the experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a collaboration with Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Ben Baker Billington.
Their debut LP, 'Hold On, Hold Fast,' is a multivariable meditation on existence and a queasy sonic exploration. It combines Stone’s evocative vocals and writing with Billington’s roving modular synth soundscapes, which oscillate between the caustic and the atmospheric, resulting in something singularly Midwestern - plainspoken but disorienting.
Though there is a surrealism in both instrumental and vocal realms, the album circumvents the soft allure of dreaminess, firmly footed in reality, but distorting it through a lens, gently.
- 1 - I 3:57
- 2 - II 2:13
- 3 - III 3:39
- 4 - IV 3:25
- 5 - V 2:25
- 6 - VI 2:31
- 7 - VII 2:47
- 8 - VIII 2:29
- 9 - IX 2:24
- 10 - X 3:09
- 11 - XI 2:36
- 12 - XII 3:59
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- 1 - I 3:57
- 2 - II 2:13
- 3 - III 3:39
- 4 - IV 3:25
- 5 - V 2:25
- 6 - VI 2:31
- 7 - VII 2:47
- 8 - VIII 2:29
- 9 - IX 2:24
- 10 - X 3:09
- 11 - XI 2:36
- 12 - XII 3:59
why we love this
Murmurs flow into the uncanny valley of this record, where the lines between human and cyborg blur. Dialogue loses coherence as the blips and whirrs of a machine speak volumes. A certain wry defiance grounds itself in the knowledge that meaning survives and persists, even when it's lost in translation.
about the record
"I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder," shares Havadine Stone of the experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a collaboration with Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Ben Baker Billington.
Their debut LP, 'Hold On, Hold Fast,' is a multivariable meditation on existence and a queasy sonic exploration. It combines Stone’s evocative vocals and writing with Billington’s roving modular synth soundscapes, which oscillate between the caustic and the atmospheric, resulting in something singularly Midwestern - plainspoken but disorienting.
Though there is a surrealism in both instrumental and vocal realms, the album circumvents the soft allure of dreaminess, firmly footed in reality, but distorting it through a lens, gently.
