Release Date: 04 August 2017
Label: Naim (Kartel)
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5037300815350
Genres: Indie
Release Date: 18 August 2017
Label: Naim (Kartel)
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5037300815343
Genres: Indie
Description
Poignant, dreamlike, beautiful: The Last Dinosaur's The Nothing is a record to swim in. The brainchild of Essex-born Londoner Jamie Cameron, it's an album that addresses a tragic event from his teenage years, and transmutes that experience into a cathartic work of art.
The Nothing is uplifting, life-affirming. Its lyrics may tackle the subject of mortality, but the gorgeous, overlapping, interlacing melodies are like drifting in a blissful reverie. 'We'll Greet Death', with its strings, piano, saxophone and acoustic guitar is defiant, possessed of an emotional complexity. On 'Grow', Jamie's lovely acoustic plucking forms the basis for a song about the fragility of life, while 'The Sea' is a meditative post-rock movement that begins in a hushed place and concludes over five minutes later in a gorgeous string-laden denouement. Although Jamie professes to a childhood love for R.E.M and most of all, Talk Talk, the music here is very much his own, self-penned and performed with close friend Rachel Lanskey providing viola on most of the songs. "I've had a very strong sense of never wanting to copy anyone else's music, I just want to sound like me," Jamie says.
Created between 2009 and 2016, The Nothing is a stunning, affecting album that is also a touching tribute to Jamie's late friend. "Someone called it elegiac," Jamie says. "I quite liked that notion."
Description
Poignant, dreamlike, beautiful: The Last Dinosaur's The Nothing is a record to swim in. The brainchild of Essex-born Londoner Jamie Cameron, it's an album that addresses a tragic event from his teenage years, and transmutes that experience into a cathartic work of art.
The Nothing is uplifting, life-affirming. Its lyrics may tackle the subject of mortality, but the gorgeous, overlapping, interlacing melodies are like drifting in a blissful reverie. 'We'll Greet Death', with its strings, piano, saxophone and acoustic guitar is defiant, possessed of an emotional complexity. On 'Grow', Jamie's lovely acoustic plucking forms the basis for a song about the fragility of life, while 'The Sea' is a meditative post-rock movement that begins in a hushed place and concludes over five minutes later in a gorgeous string-laden denouement. Although Jamie professes to a childhood love for R.E.M and most of all, Talk Talk, the music here is very much his own, self-penned and performed with close friend Rachel Lanskey providing viola on most of the songs. "I've had a very strong sense of never wanting to copy anyone else's music, I just want to sound like me," Jamie says.
Created between 2009 and 2016, The Nothing is a stunning, affecting album that is also a touching tribute to Jamie's late friend. "Someone called it elegiac," Jamie says. "I quite liked that notion."
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Yazz Ahmed
Neil Cowley Trio
Trichotomy
Kairos 4tet
Gwyneth Herbert
Daudi Matsiko
Nicolas Meier
Chris Anderson & Sabina Sciubba
Mikaela Davis & Circles Around The Sun
Babe Report
Ekko Astral
Bogus Blimp
Bogus Blimp
Bogus Blimp
Lucius
Cranes
