Name: Earth Patterns
Brand: Szun Waves

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BAY119V

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Spot Varnished Sleeve and Printed Inner Sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

843190011919

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BAY119CD

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Download code: No

843190011926

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BAY119VX

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brown

Brown Smoke

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Extended format: Yes

843190011933

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

Artist

Szun Waves

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

The Leaf Label

The members of Szun Waves may not have been collectively in the same country, let alone room, for over two years, but that hasn’t prevented them from realising their third album, Earth Patterns.

The trio – comprised of producer Luke Abbott, saxophonist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet) and drummer Laurence Pike (Triosk/PVT/Liars) – recorded the album sessions together at the tail end of their 2019 European tour, locking themselves away in the studio for three days of improvisation. They emerged with hours of music, some inspired by their live shows, most born fresh in the studio itself, ready to be moulded into the group’s third album in five years. However, with Laurence marooned in Australia, and Luke and Jack grounded in different parts of the UK, it meant an unexpected reassessment of the band’s creative remit, and the enforced long gestation period almost inadvertently ended up creating the most fully-formed Szun Waves record to date. 

Where second album, New Hymn To Freedom, had its face tilted up to the heavens, Earth Patterns is a more grounded record, and in places, a more claustrophobic one: Wyllie’s saxophone squalls ripple in the background as Pike’s dense drums clatter, both shaped and guided by the atmospherics of Abbott’s synths. Moments of jazz harmony collide with cinematic soundscapes; long searching passages build into kaleidoscopic frenzies.

Earth Patterns

Music GB