The Age of Immunology (Expanded Edition)
Vanishing Twin's psych-folk/library skewed second album has been bumped up with an additional album of bonus material, including a handful of live recordings and trippy extended reworks of the LP's best-loved jams. Essential listening if yr into Broadcast, Ennio Morricone or Jean-Claude Vannier.
Released in 2019, 'The Age of Immunology' cemented Vanishing Twin's reputation as a band who're more than prepared to look back in their relentless journey forward. Their fascination bubbles from the same wellspring of fringe psych-folk oddness that Broadcast and Stereolab bathed in all of two decades ago, and bandleader Cathy Lucas manages to not only replicate a similar motion, but augment it with vital contemporary politics. She's flanked by Broadcast affiliate Phil MFU, who handles synths, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bassist Susumu Mukai (aka Zongamin), and each member's signature helps make 'The Age of Immunology' not just a love-letter to a bygone age, but a tangled web of musical virtuosity. There are nods to classic French off-track pop (think Serge Gainsbourg's work with Vannier) and the cult 'Planète Sauvage' soundtrack, the lush orchestral variations of Ennio Morricone and Sun Ra's peerless 'Lanquidity', but Lucas also pays her respect to classic British folk music, singing with a somber gentleness that comes directly from chalk cliffs and salt water.
This fleshed-out reissue extends the album's narrative a little, adding a kaleidoscopic 14-minute version of 'You Are Not an Island', a longer, funkier edit of 'Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life' and a Lucas-helmed rework of the title track, that originally featured a vocal from Mukai. Additionally, there's live recordings of 'Magician's Success', 'Backstroke' and 'Language is a City (Let Me Out)'.
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Vanishing Twin's psych-folk/library skewed second album has been bumped up with an additional album of bonus material, including a handful of live recordings and trippy extended reworks of the LP's best-loved jams. Essential listening if yr into Broadcast, Ennio Morricone or Jean-Claude Vannier.
Released in 2019, 'The Age of Immunology' cemented Vanishing Twin's reputation as a band who're more than prepared to look back in their relentless journey forward. Their fascination bubbles from the same wellspring of fringe psych-folk oddness that Broadcast and Stereolab bathed in all of two decades ago, and bandleader Cathy Lucas manages to not only replicate a similar motion, but augment it with vital contemporary politics. She's flanked by Broadcast affiliate Phil MFU, who handles synths, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bassist Susumu Mukai (aka Zongamin), and each member's signature helps make 'The Age of Immunology' not just a love-letter to a bygone age, but a tangled web of musical virtuosity. There are nods to classic French off-track pop (think Serge Gainsbourg's work with Vannier) and the cult 'Planète Sauvage' soundtrack, the lush orchestral variations of Ennio Morricone and Sun Ra's peerless 'Lanquidity', but Lucas also pays her respect to classic British folk music, singing with a somber gentleness that comes directly from chalk cliffs and salt water.
This fleshed-out reissue extends the album's narrative a little, adding a kaleidoscopic 14-minute version of 'You Are Not an Island', a longer, funkier edit of 'Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life' and a Lucas-helmed rework of the title track, that originally featured a vocal from Mukai. Additionally, there's live recordings of 'Magician's Success', 'Backstroke' and 'Language is a City (Let Me Out)'.
Vanishing Twin's psych-folk/library skewed second album has been bumped up with an additional album of bonus material, including a handful of live recordings and trippy extended reworks of the LP's best-loved jams. Essential listening if yr into Broadcast, Ennio Morricone or Jean-Claude Vannier.
Released in 2019, 'The Age of Immunology' cemented Vanishing Twin's reputation as a band who're more than prepared to look back in their relentless journey forward. Their fascination bubbles from the same wellspring of fringe psych-folk oddness that Broadcast and Stereolab bathed in all of two decades ago, and bandleader Cathy Lucas manages to not only replicate a similar motion, but augment it with vital contemporary politics. She's flanked by Broadcast affiliate Phil MFU, who handles synths, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bassist Susumu Mukai (aka Zongamin), and each member's signature helps make 'The Age of Immunology' not just a love-letter to a bygone age, but a tangled web of musical virtuosity. There are nods to classic French off-track pop (think Serge Gainsbourg's work with Vannier) and the cult 'Planète Sauvage' soundtrack, the lush orchestral variations of Ennio Morricone and Sun Ra's peerless 'Lanquidity', but Lucas also pays her respect to classic British folk music, singing with a somber gentleness that comes directly from chalk cliffs and salt water.
This fleshed-out reissue extends the album's narrative a little, adding a kaleidoscopic 14-minute version of 'You Are Not an Island', a longer, funkier edit of 'Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life' and a Lucas-helmed rework of the title track, that originally featured a vocal from Mukai. Additionally, there's live recordings of 'Magician's Success', 'Backstroke' and 'Language is a City (Let Me Out)'.
Vanishing Twin's psych-folk/library skewed second album has been bumped up with an additional album of bonus material, including a handful of live recordings and trippy extended reworks of the LP's best-loved jams. Essential listening if yr into Broadcast, Ennio Morricone or Jean-Claude Vannier.
Released in 2019, 'The Age of Immunology' cemented Vanishing Twin's reputation as a band who're more than prepared to look back in their relentless journey forward. Their fascination bubbles from the same wellspring of fringe psych-folk oddness that Broadcast and Stereolab bathed in all of two decades ago, and bandleader Cathy Lucas manages to not only replicate a similar motion, but augment it with vital contemporary politics. She's flanked by Broadcast affiliate Phil MFU, who handles synths, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bassist Susumu Mukai (aka Zongamin), and each member's signature helps make 'The Age of Immunology' not just a love-letter to a bygone age, but a tangled web of musical virtuosity. There are nods to classic French off-track pop (think Serge Gainsbourg's work with Vannier) and the cult 'Planète Sauvage' soundtrack, the lush orchestral variations of Ennio Morricone and Sun Ra's peerless 'Lanquidity', but Lucas also pays her respect to classic British folk music, singing with a somber gentleness that comes directly from chalk cliffs and salt water.
This fleshed-out reissue extends the album's narrative a little, adding a kaleidoscopic 14-minute version of 'You Are Not an Island', a longer, funkier edit of 'Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life' and a Lucas-helmed rework of the title track, that originally featured a vocal from Mukai. Additionally, there's live recordings of 'Magician's Success', 'Backstroke' and 'Language is a City (Let Me Out)'.