Hold On, Hold Fast

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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. 1 - I 3:57
  2. 2 - II 2:13
  3. 3 - III 3:39
  4. 4 - IV 3:25
  5. 5 - V 2:25
  6. 6 - VI 2:31
  7. 7 - VII 2:47
  8. 8 - VIII 2:29
  9. 9 - IX 2:24
  10. 10 - X 3:09
  11. 11 - XI 2:36
  12. 12 - XII 3:59

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Hold On, Hold Fast

30,00

in stock

  1. 1 - I 3:57
  2. 2 - II 2:13
  3. 3 - III 3:39
  4. 4 - IV 3:25
  5. 5 - V 2:25
  6. 6 - VI 2:31
  7. 7 - VII 2:47
  8. 8 - VIII 2:29
  9. 9 - IX 2:24
  10. 10 - X 3:09
  11. 11 - XI 2:36
  12. 12 - XII 3:59

Embed

Copy and paste this code to your site to embed.

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.

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