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Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)
Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)
Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)
Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)
Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)

Al Lover - COSMIC JOKE (Levitation Edition)

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    Los Angeles-based electronic producer Al Lover is today sharing the new single ‘Integrated Paradox’, the first to be lifted from his newly announced ‘Cosmic Joke’ album due out May 27th via Fuzz Club Records. A staple of the global psychedelic scene, 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. ‘Integrated Paradox’ is out now and available to stream here:

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    Utilising an arsenal of samples, drum machine, analogue synths and live instrumentation, Lover’s is a kaleidoscopic sound that’s J-Dilla, DJ Shadow and Lee Scratch Perry by way of Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and Kluster. Central to his 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.

    Through the years he has released a number of studio albums and beat-tapes, remixed the likes of Osees and Night Beats, been resident DJ for the Levitation and Desert Daze festivals and collaborated with the likes of Goat, Anton Newcombe, Cairo Liberation Front and White Fence. Now, Lover returns with his latest studio album, ‘Cosmic Joke’ – a series of synthesised philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity.

    Talking about the record – which arrives following his 2019 ‘Existential Everything’ LP – Lover says: "'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.” Out today, Lover describes the first preview of the album, ‘Integrated Paradox’, as “a mediation on paradox versus contradiction.”

     



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