The Last Days of Gravity
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The Last Days of Gravity is Younger Brother's second album. It is a collaborative downtempo
psychedelic
project between English
psytrance Producers Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle
) and Benji Vaughan
(Prometheus, Cyberbabas).
The album was positively received by critics.
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
psychedelic
Psychedelic
The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...
project between English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
psytrance Producers Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle
Shpongle
Shpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram . Their musical style combines eastern ethnic instruments and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music...
) and Benji Vaughan
Benji Vaughan
Benjamin Vaughan, better known as Benji Vaughan, is a British psychedelic trance musician. He has released music under many names, of which most well known is his solo project, Prometheus, and his collaboration with Twisted Records label colleague, Simon Posford, under the moniker Younger Brother...
(Prometheus, Cyberbabas).
The album was positively received by critics.
Track listing
- "Happy Pills" - 8:49
- "All I Want" - 9:06
- "Elephant Machine" - 6:22
- "Your Friends Are Scary" - 6:41
- "I Am a Freak" - 9:00
- "Ribbon on a Branch" - 7:49
- "Sleepwalker, Part 1" - 6:18
- "Sleepwalker, Part 2" - 6:02
- "Psychic Gibbon" - 7:31
Trivia
- The cover art of The Last Days Of Gravity is done by Storm ThorgersonStorm ThorgersonStorm Thorgerson is an English graphic designer, known for his work for rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Muse, The Cranberries, and Biffy Clyro.-Biography:...
- The spoken intro in "All I Want" is taken from an interview with Salvador DaliSalvador DalíSalvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
.
External links
- The Last Days Of Gravity at twisted.co.uk - Features samples of Younger Brother's second album.
- Younger Brother MySpace
- Homepage of Storm Thorgerson
- "Ribbon On A Branch" live