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Vignetting the Compost
Electronic · 2009 · 16 tracks

Vignetting the Compost

Bibio

Warped acoustic guitars and field recordings of the English countryside. A dusty, tape-saturated meditation on nature, memory, and the beauty of decay.

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It sounds like a folk record that's been buried in the woods for twenty years and then played back on a broken tape deck.

A gentle, sun-drenched acceptance of mortality and the slow reclamation of the world by nature.

Vignetting the Compost · vs · Bibio
Autumn Walk+2.1σ

Autumn Walk saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks
01
Flesh Rots, Pip Sown
4:25
02
Mr and Mrs Compost
1:26
03
Everglad Everglade
1:08
04
Dopplerton
4:35
05
Great Are the Piths
2:38
06
Odd Paws
2:32
07
Under the Pier
4:08
08
Weekend Wildfire
5:09
09
The Clothesline and the Silver Birch
2:04
10
Torn Under the Window Light
2:06
11
The Ephemeral Bluebell
5:46
12
Over the Far and Hills Away
1:06
13
Amongst the Bark and Fungus
6:04
14
Top Soil
2:34
15
Thatched
4:11
16
The Garden Shelter
15:05
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the guitar in 'Flesh Rots, Pip Sown' seems to melt and pitch-shift under the weight of simulated tape age.
The transition into the fifteen-minute ambient sprawl of 'The Garden Shelter' where the melody dissolves into pure texture.
The jarringly beautiful contrast between the morbid lyrics of 'Mr and Mrs Compost' and the sun-drenched acoustic arrangement.
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