Name: Amnioverse
Brand: Lapalux

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-BF-086

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Colour

Pink

Colour details

Pink Splatter vinyl.

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Gatefold sleeve with silver foil detail. Includes 28 page large booklet.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5054429137316

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / pink

CD-BF-086

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Download code: No

Extended format: No

5054429137323

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Lapalux

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Brainfeeder

Lapalux is an acclaimed electronic music producer and artist known for his unique blend of experimental beats and atmospheric soundscapes. With a discography spanning over a decade, Lapalux has established himself as a leading figure in the genre, drawing inspiration from diverse influences such as *Shlohmo*, *Teebs*, and *Machinedrum*. His music captivates listeners with its intricate melodies, intricate rhythms, and ethereal textures.

Similar to artists like *Dauwd*, *Groundislava*, and *Nosaj Thing*, Lapalux's compositions seamlessly fuse elements of hip-hop, ambient, and future garage. His tracks transport listeners to otherworldly realms where emotions intertwine with complex sonic landscapes. Drawing on his vast musical knowledge and technical expertise, Lapalux crafts immersive soundscapes that push the boundaries of electronic music.

With a dedicated fan base that spans across the globe, Lapalux continues to evolve his sound while staying true to his artistic vision. Collaborations with artists such as *Shigeto* and *Dorian Concept* have further showcased his versatility as a producer. Whether performing live or producing in the studio, Lapalux consistently delivers captivating performances that leave audiences mesmerized.

Lapalux (aka Stuart Howard) returns to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder for his fourth album. “Amnioverse”—“a sort of portmanteau of the amniotic sac and the universe,” he explains—revolves around notions of fluidity; that birth, life, death, and rebirth is a never ending continuum.

He channels these ethereal ideas through a new and ever-expanding modular synth set-up, injecting human emotion, and layering recordings of weather, wind, rain and fire, lending an elemental, celestial feel to the composition. While 2017’s “Ruinism” was about sonic wreckage and deconstruction, with “Amnioverse”, Howard took a different approach, basing each track around a snippet of spoken word from “friends, lovers, and ex partners”, and building the music around it. He also reconnects with Icelandic vocalist JFDR (Jófríður Ákadóttir) who returns for two tracks on ’Thin Air’ and ‘The Lux Quadrant’, as well as vocalist Lilia on ‘Limb To Limb’, ‘Voltaic Acid’ and ‘Momentine’. “For me the real focus was that the whole record flowed,” he says. ”I worked on each song sequentially and wouldn’t stop working on a session until they fitted together and told the story that I wanted to tell.” 

Initial inspiration for the album came from a photograph of James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace installation in Texas. “I looked at it every day for three years whilst making this record.” explains Howard, “People are sitting in what looks like a waiting room lit in a purple hue, looking up at the dark night sky through a rectangular hole in the ceiling. The image has so much depth and means so much to me.... it seems like we are all in that waiting room, waiting to be somewhere or go somewhere. That’s what I tried to encapsulate in this record.”

Turrell's influence extends to the album cover too, itself an homage to the artist’s groundbreaking work with light, shadow and perspective. Conceived by Creative Director and photographer Dan Medhurst and Owen Gildersleeve—an expert in hand-crafted illustration and set design—the build stemmed from a vision that Howard imagined: “I initially had an idea of a person, or group of people, in an impossibly large room set in a fog of pink looking into a void symbolic of a womb or amniotic sac,” he says. “We then ran with the idea of making a structure that had a deeper perspective, the ever decreasing octagon shape that suggests a sort of birth canal into the unknown.” 

Support for Lapalux has come from the likes of Pitchfork, Mixmag, FADER, FACT, Dazed, SPIN, The Wire, A.V. Club and many more. With Benji B, Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne, Mary-Anne Hobbs and many others championing his music across radio.

Capping off last year with two standout performances at the Brainfeeder X showcase at Brixton Academy, and alongside Jacques Greene at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere, Lapalux is set to return with a new live-AV show—driven and delivered by his modular gear set-up—to present a cohesive light, projection and sound performance.

Tracklist: 1. Oblivion 2. Voltaic Acid 3. Momentine 4. Earth 5. Hellix 6. Thin Air 7. Limb To Limb 8. The Lux Quadrant 9. Amnioverse 10. Esc

Amnioverse

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