A strictly one-off 2LP vinyl pressing of The Itself of Itself in an edition of 1000 copies.  

 

The first new album for 12 years by Steven Wilson’s Bass Communion project, earlier in the year it was released as a limited CD edition on the Lumberton Trading Company label, which sold out almost immediately.  

 

This deluxe vinyl edition mirrors the CD edition exactly, coming in a gatefold sleeve, with 24 page booklet, and OBI strip.  Limited to 1 per person.

 

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Long established as a purveyor of mostly atmospheric or ambient textures, the seven cuts that represent The Itself of Itself take detours from this approach in order draw as much from musique concrete, noise music, abstract electronics and uneasy listening. Whilst still rippled with the same shades of light and dark that can be found throughout all of Bass Communion’s work, 'The Itself of Itself' reveals a fascination with analogue sounds and, more importantly perhaps, ‘unwanted’ analogue artefacts like tape hiss, wow and flutter, static noise, and sonic break-up, taking the music into a space at once different yet familiar.