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leyland kirby - when we parted my heart wanted to die - history always favours the winners - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. When We Parted, My Heart Wanted To Die (Friedrichshain Memory)
2. The Sound Of Music Vanishing
3. The Beauty Of The Impending Tragedy Of My Existence
4. And As I Sat Beside You I Felt The Great Sadness That Day
5. Tonight Is The Last Night Of The World
6. To The Place Between The Twilight And The Dawn

The first part of Leyland Kirby, aka The Caretaker's, 'Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was' series, originally released back in 2009 and now finally reissued.

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It's a prescient hauntological elegy somewhere between Vangelis’ Bladerunner OST, Lynch & Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, Erik Satie’s solo Piano works, William Basinski’s gradual tape decompositions and James Ferraro’s washed out visions, like a slowly abstracted Berlin/Manchester night-scape.