Album artwork for Cosmic Joke by Al Lover

A staple of the global psychedelic scene, Al Lover has spent nearly a decade fine-tuning a broken, abstracted form of electronica that pools together a tapestry of trip-hop, synthesised krautrock, dub and dark ambient.

Central to Lover's music is a desire to explore the fringes of psychedelic music and the common threads that run through its far-reaching styles, drawing elements from the past and connecting them to the future, 'Cosmic Joke' - a series of synthesised philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity.

"'Cosmic Joke' came from observing the rising, compounded absurdity in recent years and seeing structures of normalcy dissolving. It's my attempt to view these things as part of a higher order process, through a metaphysical lens rather than an ideological one. It's been an exercise in holding the paradoxical relationship of comedy and tragedy, joy and pain, growth and decay, scale and decline as part of an interlocked system that, at a deep level, is essential to how we interface with the world."

Al Lover

Cosmic Joke

Fuzz Club Records
Album artwork for Cosmic Joke by Al Lover
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Released 09/09/2022Catalog Number

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Al Lover

Cosmic Joke

Fuzz Club Records
Album artwork for Cosmic Joke by Al Lover
LP +

$36.99

Indie Exclusive

Green Transparent Vinyl

Released 09/09/2022Catalog Number

LP-FUZZ-174XIEC

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Album artwork for Cosmic Joke by Al Lover
CD

$16.99

Indie Exclusive

Released 08/05/2022Catalog Number

CD-FUZZ-174IE

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Album artwork for Cosmic Joke by Al Lover
LP

$32.99

Indie Exclusive

Black
Released 09/30/2022Catalog Number

LP-FUZZ-174IE

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A staple of the global psychedelic scene, Al Lover has spent nearly a decade fine-tuning a broken, abstracted form of electronica that pools together a tapestry of trip-hop, synthesised krautrock, dub and dark ambient.

Central to Lover's music is a desire to explore the fringes of psychedelic music and the common threads that run through its far-reaching styles, drawing elements from the past and connecting them to the future, 'Cosmic Joke' - a series of synthesised philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity.

"'Cosmic Joke' came from observing the rising, compounded absurdity in recent years and seeing structures of normalcy dissolving. It's my attempt to view these things as part of a higher order process, through a metaphysical lens rather than an ideological one. It's been an exercise in holding the paradoxical relationship of comedy and tragedy, joy and pain, growth and decay, scale and decline as part of an interlocked system that, at a deep level, is essential to how we interface with the world."