Name: Life Is Short The Answer's Long
Brand: The Beat Escape

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BELLA721CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5414940010176

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Total Cap

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

Artist

The Beat Escape

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Bella Union

The Beat Escape's debut album Life Is Short The Answer's Long. Available here on LP.

The Beat Escape have crafted a debut album their younger selves would be proud of: released through Bella Union on 27th April, the sublimely immersive Life Is Short The Answer's Long plays like a waking dream of near-psychedelic electronic pop, moving to its own beat in the push-pull of forward motion and submerged reflection. That sense of propulsion ushers opener Sign Of Age into rising view, its sparse drums, hypnotic sequence and melancholic chords resembling house music as reimagined by Angelo Badalamenti. The enveloping mood holds as Moon In Aquarius unfurls like a night- time road ahead, ghosted by narcotic harmonies. Limestone Alps lingers meditatively, hymnal vocals reverberating. Where Water Ends and More Dreams, meanwhile, navigate the porous boundary lines between Krautrock, Factory Records and obscure minimal wave records of the 80s.

Life Is Short The Answer's Long

Music US