{"product_id":"grayson-gilmour-otherness-cd","title":"Grayson Gilmour - Otherness (CD)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first thing you hear is a note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt might be a plucked piano string or some celestial harp, it’s impossible to tell, but it is echoing to infinity, like a sonar signal bouncing off the cosmos, creating an irregular percussive rhythm as it moves through space. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOtherness\u003c\/em\u003e his third record with Flying Nun Records, follows on from 2014’s critically acclaimed ‘Infinite Life!’ (\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enominated for both NZ Music Award and the 2015 Taite Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e) and \u003c\/span\u003eover a 15 year music career,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrayson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas built himself a dedicated fan base and admiration from music critics across New Zealand and internationally for not just his solo work but his band\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo So Modern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his more recent film and TV work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the first moments of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOtherness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrayson Gilmour\u003c\/strong\u003e’s wonderfully rich new album, he has given an object lesson in how intimately word and sound can be entwined. These aren’t just a few cool samples splashed around some nice songs. This is a place where song and sound are inseparable. And that intricate weave of tone and imagery continues through 43 minutes of music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGilmour\u003c\/strong\u003e has had plenty of practice at this. He began making recordings in his teens, if not earlier. His first releases were handmade things: home-recorded and presented in inky packages, meticulously photocopied, folded and glued. As time went on these grew more sophisticated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThough an accomplished player on all the traditional rock instruments – piano, guitar, drums, bass – he has a more specialised gift for making music out of things that weren’t instruments to start with: found sounds, sonic detritus, which he has been known to copy back and forth between two old cassette recorders, until they develop a patina, a kind of acoustic cortex. Sometimes these will become the textural and rhythmic foundations for songs. On \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOtherness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e such building blocks are enmeshed with electronics and those more traditional instruments, to which he also adds live strings. The results are lush, surprising and ever-shifting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nBut if \u003cstrong\u003eGilmour\u003c\/strong\u003e is more sonically inventive than ever, he has also become more direct in the way he expresses himself; more generous with his melodies, more open with his emotions. His singing has never been more prominent or assured. Above all, Otherness is an album of glorious pop songs – yearning, heart-tugging, romantic – encased in beautiful sound worlds.\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Hundred Waters\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Blow Back\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Twenty-One Tattoo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Better Life\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Be A Beacon\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Otherness\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7.Sundowning\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Slow Hope\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Artery \/ Don't Let It Get You!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grayson Gilmour","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":47726093107444,"sku":"FN567cd","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/products\/Grayson_Gilmour_-_Otherness.jpg?v=1721977431","url":"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/grayson-gilmour-otherness-cd","provider":"Flying Nun ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}