Final yr, Bibio launched his tenth full-length album, BIB10, and he’s following it up with a brand new EP, Sunbathing, which might be out on the finish of September. “Because the launch of Ambivalence Avenue in 2009, I’ve adopted up each one in all my albums with no less than 1 EP,” Bibio mentioned in a press release. “Every of my albums looks like a definite chapter in my life, and the EPs are a method of increasing a chapter earlier than I transfer onto one thing fully totally different.” He continued:

An EP is due to this fact a type of satellite tv for pc launch to an album, and permits me to discover extra concepts and variations inside every chapter. Sunbursting EP is due to this fact a part of the identical world as BIB10, but explores some new concepts and consists of some new devices and sounds. In addition to collaborating with the gifted Olivier St. Louis on “Sorry (Received’t Lower It)”, I additionally had contributions on the observe “Rosewoods” from some wonderful session musicians from Glasgow (Ian Hendry on drums, Tony Graham on extra horns), and Dorian Idea contributed some keys too. The album closes with a meandering bittersweet piece initially composed on guitar, however later I invited the great and distinctive Icelandic tenor sax participant Óskar Guðjónsson to play on the observe “Sunbursting”, the melodic themes accented by Conor Smith’s pedal metal guitar taking part in. Óskar has a singular and extremely mushy tone, usually making the tenor sax sound like a very totally different and distinctive instrument. Different tracks have been carried out fully on my own, some with reside drums and a few with drum machines, it’s a really hands-on EP the place I layer many devices, together with guitars, keys, sax, synths, glockenspiel and percussion. Influences are available fragments, the place I’d take concepts within the type of small components from totally different eras and genres and mix them right into a patchwork of influences, resembling themes from Blue Magic’s track intros, Prince, Brazilian legends resembling Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marcos Valle and Arthur Verocai, and there’s a contact of yacht rock and funk affect in there too.

Hearken to “Sorry (Received’t Lower It)” under.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Sorry (Received’t Lower It)” (Feat. Olivier St Louis)
02 “Shine A Gentle On Your Mirror”
03 “A Matter Of Truth”
04 “Rosewoods”
05 “All Of The Above”
06 “Clay Dots”
07 “Sunbursting” (Feat. Óskar Guðjónsson)

The Sunbursting EP is out 9/22 through Warp Information.