Name: Cosmic Joke
Brand: Al Lover

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FC174CD

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060467889223

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

FC174V12

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black

Standard LP is on 180g black vinyl, standard sleeve, printed inner-sleeve.

2022-05-27

5060467889186

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

FC174V12DE

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green

Extended format: Yes

Deluxe Edition is on 180g transparent green vinyl, gatefold sleeve, printed inner-sleeve.

5060467889193

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

Artist

Al Lover

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Fuzz Club

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. Utilising an arsenal of samples, drum machine, analogue synths and live instrumentation, Lover’s is a kaleidoscopic sound that’s J-Dilla, DJ Shadow andLee Scratch Perry by way of Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and Kluster. Central to Lover’s 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, <i>Cosmic Joke</i> – a series of synthesised philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity. "<i>Cosmic Joke</i> came from observing the rising, compounded absurdity in recent years andseeing structures of normalcy dissolving. It’s my attempt to view these things as part of a higher-order process, through a metaphysicallens 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.”

Cosmic Joke

Music GB