Vanishing Twin to Release Archives on Friday

Vanishing Twin will release their album Archives on Friday. The album was created in a virtual studio space by contributors located hundreds of miles apart, working between home studios in rural France and a boat in London. The release demonstrates that collaborators can enter a state of creative flow on a boat, in a home studio, or in a virtual studio space. Vanishing Twin originally emerged in 2015 as a five-piece band.

The band developed the songs through improvisation, overdubs, and collaged musical pieces. During the process, band members reprocessed samples, edited studio sessions, or switched instruments. On the album, the vocals on Life By The Hand and the drums on Sugar Stone retain a site-specific recording character. Across the music, Cathy Lucas’s vocals are usually not placed centrally alone.

In a description used for the release, Archives is characterized as Chiastic Slide-era Autechre reimagine The Wicker Man soundtrack. Among the tracks, Hazama begins with toy instruments before moving into a dub section that sounds as if it were played on metal pans. Previously, Vanishing Twin used home-made electronics on their album Choose Your Own Adventure and incorporated iPhone-recorded material on The Age of Immunology.