Bibio - Vignetting The Compost

"Vignetting The Compost partly draws on a theme of the endless cycle of life and death, of growth and decay and how the two are dependent on each other, often felt strongly by humans as polar opposites but the process of which are seamlessly connected.

I was partly inspired by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which I was reading around the time of writing this album. The images gained from books are created in the reader’s mind, but so can be said of listening to music, so the creation of the imagery is somewhat of a collaboration between the writer and the reader or listener. This album also explores the processes of pain, loss, suffering and healing, with an optimistic hopeful tone growing over the lamentation like ivy on a gravestone.

I’ve always been fascinated with the quality of the imagination and dreams, how edges are unfinished and indefinite, unlike the boundaries of a cinema screen. In dreams, forms and details can seem vivid yet vague, impressionistic, powerful yet difficult to recall. These were the qualities and aesthetics that I focussed on with this album, including intertwining musical ‘vignettes’ amongst the more structured tracks." — Bibio 2023

TRACKLIST:

1. Flesh Rots, Pip Sown
2. 
Mr. & Mrs. Compost
3. 
Everglad Everglade
4. 
Dopplerton
5. 
Great Are The Piths
6. 
Odd Paws
7. 
Under The Pier
8. 
Weekend Wildfire
9. 
The Clothesline And The Silver Birch
10. 
Torn Under The Window Light
11. The Ephemeral Bluebell
12. 
Over The Far And Hills Away
13. 
Amongst The Bark And Fungus
14. Top Soil
15. Thatched
16. The Garden Shelter