After All The Label Drama.. [Archive]

Chris March

06/30/04, 02:26 PM

(New York, NY) - The sophomore album from Faultline (aka U.K. electronic
> artist David Kosten and guests), Your Love Means Everything, will be
> re-issued in the U.S. by Capitol Records with three new songs on August
> 24th.
>
> The album, which was originally released two years ago, fell prey to label
> politics and simple bad luck and unjustly disappeared from view. But,
> awash in spectral electronic melancholy and epic beauty, the lost classic
> did not escape a chorus of high praise:
>
> "Exquisitely moving" - Mojo
>
> "Devastating" - The Sunday Times
>
> "A must-hear record...12 songs of heart-shattering sadness" - NME
>
> But two years later much has changed. Faultline have a new U.S. label,
> Capitol Records. And two of the guests on the album have since become
> major international stars. Coldplay's Chris Martin hadn't even begun
> recording A Rush of Blood to the Head when he sang on two haunting
> Faultline tracks: "Where is My Boy?" and "Your Love Means Everything Part
> 2."
>
> And The Flaming Lips were just outgrowing their cult status when they
> collaborated on the gripping and gorgeous "The Colossal Gray Sunshine."
>
> R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe collaborated on a cover of "Greenfields," a bit of
> dark Americana from late-50s folk revivalists The Brothers Four.
>
> The re-issue of Your Live Means Everything also includes three new songs
> not on the original. "We Came from Lego Blocks" is an fractured, downbeat
> lullaby featuring vocals from Vordul Megilah of east coast underground
> hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox. Cult singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur
> collaborates on a truly eerie cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses."
> And the rubbery, cosmic "Biting Tongues" features Ras B, a ragga-styled MC
> from Adrian Sherwood's On U-Sound crew.
>
> Other album tracks like "Your Love Means Everything," "Theme for Half
> Speed" and "I Only Know Myself" reveal the many degrees of Kosten's
> ghostly, sublime and orchestral sound.
>
> London-based art school dropout Kosten spent the better part of the
> nineties in a room with a four-track recorder, teaching himself recording
> and production technique as well and exploring far-flung combinations of
> sound. The result was debut album Closer, Colder, the heady, critically
> acclaimed introduction to his beautifully unsettling sound.
>
> Released three years later, Your Love Means Everything was an instant
> testament to the fruits of Kosten's ongoing sonic experimentation, as well
> as his skill at creating an extraordinary environment in which inspiration
> can strike his many collaborators. It's an album ripe for rediscovery and
> one whose allure has only intensified in the years since its original
> release.
>
>
> FAULTLINE, YOUR LOVE MEANS EVERYTHING
> 1. Your Love Means Everything
> 2. Where is My Boy? (vocals by Chris Martin)
> 3. We Came from Lego Blocks (vocals by Vordul Megilah)
> 4. Theme for Half Speed
> 5. Wild Horses (vocals by Joseph Arthur)
> 6. Sweet Iris
> 7. Biting Tongues (vocals by Ras B)
> 8. Clocks
> 9. The Colossal Gray Sunshine (vocals by The Flaming Lips)
> 10. I Only Know Myself
> 11. Greenfields (vocals by Michael Stipe)
> 12. Lost Broadcast
> 13. Your Love Means Everything Part 2 (vocals by Chris Martin)
>
>
> Visit www.faultline.co.uk