Upon Return, by Gentle Stranger

Upon Return

by Gentle Stranger

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1.	Life Without Natural Snow 01:52	buy track
2.	Order Up 01:20	buy track
3.	Dunce Disco 02:20	buy track
4.	Spider 01:41	buy track
5.	Since The Plough / Kinclaven Brig / Morpeth Rant 02:33	buy track
6.	Flutterby 00:18	buy track
7.	Butterfly 01:24	buy track
8.	Do You Wanna Go? 06:59	buy track
9.	Two to Carry Two 01:11	buy track
10.	Insects Dressed as Birds Have Learnt Not to Dwell Upon Their Achievements 00:03	buy track
11.	Post Clown 00:22	buy track
12.	Where Did My Dunce Disco Go? (Dead!) 00:11	buy track
13.	Dragonfly 02:23	buy track
14.	N.I.L. 02:16	buy track
15.	Lime Leaf 00:38	buy track
16.	In The Name of Love 03:12	buy track
17.	Crow 02:40	buy track
18.	Since The Hares 02:32	buy track
19.	Imagine Roses 04:43	buy track
20.	Last Row Sown 02:34	buy track

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Staging an attempt to gloss their music, Gentle Stranger say it recalls “throwing a bouncy ball into a hall of mirrors”. It’s telling that normal routes of describing music - your typical band boilerplate of “such and such meets such and such” or “we just play guitar, us, and leave the writing up to you” - doesn’t suffice for the London collective; instead a more arcane, more potent image is fired back, a wonky and poetic idea that’s instantly more arresting, more substantial.

For the newly-initiated, Gentle Stranger are a self-described “post-clown” outfit that oscillate between musical forms, achieving a bewildering, almost Joycean experimental sweep; pastiche, parody, burlesque, earnest composition, genre interrogation and progression - they cover it all. Their renowned live performances see the trio cycle through an arsenal of musical instruments, apparatus, tackle, and stuff. The set (part of the reason for their now cult-like following) hangs together intricately, a fractal clockwork machine that relies on movement and spatial-awareness as much as it does timing and musicality.

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released November 25, 2022

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Gentle Stranger London, UK

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Apr 28

The George Tavern

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