CHAINES Cee Haines 'THE KING' out on Slip Imprint, March 15th 2018; https://boomkat.com/products/the-king-ce3b3a7c-395d-496a-a262-380e68d2e71a The King is Chaines’ commanding return to Slip: a claustrophobic, dank book of abstracted torch songs, festering in an uneasy grandeur. The LP collects work diligently amassed in the 3 years since the British composer/producer’s Slip debut ‘OST’, which housed contributions from ‘cellist Oliver Coates and artist Mary Stark within melancholic, uncannily tactile productions. The intervening period has seen Chaines collaborate extensively with the London Contemporary Orchestra, with commissions performed at The Roundhouse, Union Chapel, Printworks, and Tate Modern. The King sees Chaines’ eccentric, singular language grasp a fresh immediacy and emotive potency. Chaines’ voice is more present than ever – creepy, seductive and pained on the Scott-Walker-does-ASMR of “Eraserhead”, and diva-ghost of “Population 5120” – and their arrangements dissolve the symphonic into freakish forms – “Carpathia” and “Knockturning” spike pastoral organs and flutes with industrial menace and convulsing beatwork. 'OST' - http://slipimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ost 'SPLIT' HERE - http://slipimprint.bandcamp.com/album/split CHAINES’s tracks Dream In Red (For a Film by Christin Turner) by CHAINES published on 2020-06-13T11:52:53Z Hewwo (so smol) For George And Siwan by CHAINES published on 2019-12-28T11:02:05Z 3. Narthex (Knockturning Part iii) by CHAINES published on 2018-11-06T09:41:31Z Scene 1: Janine and a black screen by CHAINES published on 2018-10-26T21:01:31Z
