Skeleten - Under Utopia (Blue Transparent Vinyl)

Astral People Recordings - APR056LP

Blue Transparent Vinyl

Written before and during the pandemic, Under Utopia was born out of a desire to connect with others and to shake the mantle of introspection that had been placed on his previous works. As the project has evolved, the artist has gained clarity on what he hopes his music will achieve: bringing people together, and creating an atmosphere of elation.

Threading together previous singles 'Walking On Your Name', 'Mirrored' and 'No Drones In The Afterlife', Skeleten's debut full-length is a record that prioritises immediate pleasures without forgoing intimacy, reaching outward with inviting choruses and mantra-like melodies. "I think the album came out of the experience of feeling this great desire to reconnect and dreaming of the power of community," says the musician. Suffused with cloudy, baritone vocals, glistening synths and truncated beats, it's an 11 track collection "about seeing the world entirely new, full of hope and beauty, and all of us underneath pushing it upwards". Sprawling and shimmering in equal measure, tied together by Fitzgibbon's spacious, airy production, Under Utopia finds an antidote for the ever-pervasive gloom of contemporary life in the transformative power of love, community and an enduring, determined optimism that gestures toward a better and brighter future just over the horizon.

Side A:
Generator
Mirrored
Walking On Your Name
Heart Full Of Tenderness
Territory Day

Side B:
No Drones In The Afterlife
Under Utopia
Colour Room
Right Here Its Only Love
Sharing The Fire
Everything We Need In The World

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